LINK Alum Wins Pulitzer Prize
We are thrilled to announce that LINK Alum trina reynolds-tyler (Class of 2011), data director for Invisible Institute, recently won a Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting in partnership with Sarah Conway, City Bureau Senior Reporter, for their investigation “Missing in Chicago,” a seven-part series that reveals how Chicago police have routinely violated state law and police procedure, delaying and mishandling missing person cases. The report revealed a racial bias that disproportionately impacts Black girls/women and how poor police data is making the problem harder to solve. trina and Sarah collaborated using an innovative blend of data science and a machine-learning model to ultimately analyze more than one million police records.
Read a full description of their work and its impact.
trina is a data scientist, journalist, and a native of Chicago’s South Side. She joined Invisible Institute in 2016. She was a Pearson fellow and Pozen Center for Human Rights intern at the University of Chicago, exploring domestic and international conflict through the lens of prison abolition. She holds a master’s degree in public policy from the University of Chicago.
Here’s what trina had to say about her time in LINK: “Without my experiences at Link, I would not have been as prepared on my journey into womanhood. There were adults across the Mentors and staff committed to having honest conversations with teenagers. I would be a very different human without the people who led that program. Those honest conversations later helped me understand the importance of individual stories and centering people’s experiences through data.”
Congratulations, trina! We are so proud of you!
