Katlyn Alo

views are my own. News Apps Eng @WapoEngineering | Alum @sfchronicle @media_outlier @StanfordJourn @ProPublicaIL | she/her 🇼🇸 🇺🇸

[Katlyn Alo @kat_alo]

*thrilled* to share this piece that was truly a labor of love from the start. And the best bit: we're just getting started on what will be a 5-part journey https://t.co/NxgSKF5bgC

[Dylan Freedman @dylfreed]

@dangerscarf I'm doing a talk that might be more in this spirit for SRCCON in October, with @kat_alo! https://t.co/PRHP8emrDa

Not planning for anything too bellicose, but more like let's be open, talk through problems/solutions from various perspectives, and come up with some ideas together.

[PacificMediaWorkers @PacMediaGuild]

We’ll keep standing up for fair and transparent negotiations. We hope Maui News executives and lawyers have the decency to show up and talk. In the meantime, please help us by signing this petition in support of workers at @TheMauiNewsHI. https://t.co/jkMU3kUWip

[Katlyn Alo @kat_alo]

Also pls note the collab: the Pacific Islander Task Force is thrilled to be working with both @najournalists and @aaja to bring resources to journos of Oceania.

[Katlyn Alo @kat_alo]

Never seen someone hustle like @ahofschneider to make this scholarship a reality and what an incredible joy to announce the first recipients https://t.co/Kd0gjRM0bC

[Katlyn Alo @kat_alo]

@dataeditor speaking of! can you drop a link to where I can make future purchases? I LOVE the salad bowl we used for our onsite

[Katlyn Alo @kat_alo]

@ImaniMixon I have visions of that kalamata olive pizza situation they have there ✨

[Katlyn Alo @kat_alo]

my public service for the day was adding :renaissance: to the work slack emoji game so that our status could reflect our reality #RENAISSANCE

[Anita Hofschneider @ahofschneider]

If you’re at #AAJA22 #aaja2022 and you want to contribute to our @aaja-@najournalists scholarship to support Pacific Islander journalists please reach out to me, [email protected], and Sheena Roetman, [email protected], with any questions! More here: https://t.co/dkwLVHtjEs

[Katlyn Alo @kat_alo]

3/3 “...that means our hair requires care and product. But once our hair is healthy, it is amazing what we can do with it.” - @aleliabundles

[Katlyn Alo @kat_alo]

1/3 Ch. 2 is LIVE, and this time we're exploring the business of beauty. When hair impacts how we perceive self and others, access to hair-care resources is not a cosmetic issue; it's a human issue.

[Shwanika Narayan @Shwanika]

Chapter two of the Hair Project drops today! Here, @kat_alo and I trace how the roots of Black hair-care ingenuity go back centuries but the issue of inequity remains to this day: https://t.co/DDQDusC0zu

[Katlyn Alo @kat_alo]

2/3 A favorite from the cutting room floor: “I mean our hair in some ways is fragile because it's drier, because it is coiled and the oil doesn't get all the way to the ends as easily as people who have straight hair. So that means our hair is fragile and...

[Katlyn Alo @kat_alo]

Aside: seeing screenshots of folks using the hair detection tool has absolutely made my day, so for now I will be accepting feedback on the piece exclusively in that format :)

[Katlyn Alo @kat_alo]

*thrilled* to share this piece that was truly a labor of love from the start. And the best bit: we're just getting started on what will be a 5-part journey https://t.co/NxgSKF5bgC

[Katlyn Alo @kat_alo]

And thank you to @raheemfh, @michaelbolden, @dkopf & Jesse Lewis for the guidance needed to make a project like this possible. This kind of work is an investment, and I am so grateful to have worked with folks who believed that this exploration of human experience was worth it.

[Katlyn Alo @kat_alo]

Can confirm: the hair image tool does work on non-selfies.

[Katlyn Alo @kat_alo]

All I want for the rest of this week is to see everyone's selfie mask.

[Dan Kopf @dkopf]

What a thoughtful story from @kat_alo about the representation of hair in the media and why it matter.

It also has this very cool tool to identify that identified your hair from a selfie.
https://t.co/c3l2YYFs0I