Ben Fry received his doctoral degree from the Aesthetics + Computation Group at the MIT Media Laboratory, where his research focused on combining fields such as computer science, statistics, graphic design, and data visualization as a means for understanding information. After completing his dissertation, he spent time developing tools for visualization of genetic data as a postdoc with Eric Lander at the Eli & Edythe L. Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard. During the 2006-2007 school year, Ben was the Nierenberg Chair of Design for the Carnegie Mellon School of Design. At the end of 2007, he published Visualizing Data with O'Reilly, and in 2010 wrote Getting Started with Processing with Casey Reas. Fry's work was part of the Whitney Biennial in 2002 and the Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial in 2003 and 2006. Other pieces have appeared in the Museum of Modern Art in New York, at Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria and in the films Minority Report and The Hulk. His information graphics have also illustrated articles for the journal Nature, New York Magazine, The New York Times, Seed, and Communications of the ACM.

Teri Schindler has spent her career working in media, producing documentaries, short form content and global events, like the Olympics, for NBC, CBS, ABC/ESPN and HBO, earning several Emmy and Gracie Awards for her work. As vice president of programming and marketing for NBA Entertainment, she developed brand strategies, partnerships and programming concepts for the NBA. She has advised numerous Fortune 500 companies on emerging technologies and content/platform strategies. As a freelance writer, Teri has been published in Elle Magazine and the Boston Globe, among others. She has been a featured speaker at Harvard Business School's Dynamic Women in Business conference. Teri graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Notre Dame.

Chris Brown was born and raised in Alabama, where he studied mathematics and chemistry at Auburn University. After leaving the Southeast for the cooler temps of Boston, he joined the Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology at Harvard University. He received his doctorate in May 2010, in which he experimentally and computationally studied protein family evolution in yeast. During the 2009-2010 school year, he studied (Belgian beer) as an international scholar at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Leuven, Belgium. It was during this time that he realized the importance of interactive visualizations in the sciences, which brought him back stateside to work at Fathom. Outside of work, Chris can often be found at one of the local watering holes or the rock climbing gym.

Katy Harris hails from the great state of Texas, but was lured to northern regions to study business at Carnegie Mellon University. She worked as both developer and designer in a number of industries before pursuing an MFA in Graphic Design from the Rhode Island School of Design. Her thesis work combined concepts from design and programming to explore the notion of narrative multiplicity, investigating tagging, indexing, and analog computing devices as forms of narrative structure. She comes to Fathom from a local startup, where she was designing interfaces to aid in the investigation of fraud within large banking networks. As a byproduct of this experience, she is also quite accomplished at forging checks.

Eva Wisten is a writer. She joined Fathom from a background of journalism. In 2001, she moved to the United States from her native Sweden to write about budding trends and interesting people in science and arts. She stayed, and has since worked with storytelling in various formats including books, television, interactive projects and conferences.

Mark Schifferli likes to make life easier through computing. His programming career started at Target Analysis Group, where he processed and analyzed nonprofit revenue data. After seeing his first data visualization application, he was hooked on teasing meaningful stories from large and complicated data sets. This led him to join EnerNOC, an energy management company, where he developed applications for critical real time decision making during electrical grid emergencies.

Prior to programming, Mark contributed to various ensembles in San Francisco's experimental music scene as a guitarist and recording engineer. Mark graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Indiana University, Bloomington, with a B.A. in Philosophy and minors in Math and French.

When Andrés Colubri joined us, the office filled with android phones and tablets, kinect sensors, old laptops, and a rubber band-powered airplane. Andrés is a researcher and hacker interested in combining computer programming, science, and art. He studied mathematics in his native Argentina, then carried out research in computational biology at the University of Chicago, and later obtained a Masters in Fine Arts from the Design|Media Arts program at the University of California, Los Angeles. Andrés currently works with visualization of biological and epidemiological data. He is also involved in developing new graphics and video libraries for the Processing platform. Prior to Fathom, Andrés taught bioinformatics and systems biology in the subtropical island of Jeju, South Korea.

Lynn Kiang is currently finishing her M.F.A. in graphic design at the Rhode Island School of Design. Her thesis research focuses on the learning process in design education in both formal and informal institutions. Having received her B.S. in Psychology from the University of California at Los Angeles, she has worked as both a freelance and in-house graphic designer for SWA Group and other non-profit groups in the Los Angeles and Boston area for the past ten years. Her work crosses various media including video, motion, photography and print. She would also like to adopt a dog to keep her company in studio.

We fell for our summer design intern James J. Grady when he presented his personal work that is currently fueling his thesis in graphic design at RISD: Observation to Inspiration, Reflections on the everyday extraordinary.

James investigates everyday objects and observations: shadows, light, reflections, a ripple of water, or looking out the window of a moving train. Soon, we also discovered an encyclopedic knowledge of bad movies, an emotional relationship to the movie Jaws, and a cute baby.

James enjoys spending his free time with his wife Christina and is the proud father of Joyce Johnson Grady born August 3, 2011.

Prior to RISD, James earned his BFA in Digital Media/Photography from the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth. Between 1999 and 2010, he worked at kor group, a strategic branding and design firm in Boston, MA, where he became a leading member of the senior creative team.