Michaela Herbst is a Stanford University data journalism Master's student. She is a recent University of Colorado Boulder graduate with a B.A. in journalism and minor in political science. She was previously a Carnegie-Knight News21 Fellow at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism. Michaela is an award-winning journalist for her reporting on “America After Roe.” 

While at Stanford, she has investigated the role artificial intelligence has on abortion access with Google search engines. As a graduate student, she is a reporter for Peninsula Press, a data-driven multimedia project at Stanford. She has reported on Hillary Clinton’s book tour in San Francisco in podcast form, California’s 16th district and the presidential election in print form. She is also the Opinions Editor at The Stanford Daily and has written about Philip Zimbardo, the notorious psychologist behind the Stanford Prison Experiment. Currently, she is working in collaboration with The Washington Post to implement natural language processing models to their fatal force police shooting database. She also bring skills in data analytics, Python and visualization.