Molly Cook Escobar

Senior Director, Data Visualization And Storytelling, Strada Education Foundation

Molly Cook Escobar is the senior director of data visualization and storytelling at Strada Education Foundation. She turns complex data into clear visual stories, from charts to dashboards.

Previously, she was a data visualization and graphics editor at Barron’s, where she reported on economic issues, including an award-winning piece on the millennial wealth gap. Before that, she was a graphics editing fellow at The New York Times, where she built charts and reported on topics from the Republican primaries to Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of Baltimore’s overdose epidemic. Escobar earned a Master of Science in data visualization from Parsons School of Design and a Bachelor of Humanities and Arts from Carnegie Mellon University.