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Carla Astudillo is a senior data visuals developer with a focus on elections and political data. Previously, she was a data and interactive visuals journalist at NJ.com and The Star-Ledger in New Jersey, where she helped build a database of police use of force in the state as part of a 16-month investigative project. She got her master’s degree from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York and her bachelor’s degree from the University of Florida. Carla was born in Antofagasta, Chile, and moved to the United States when she was 7 years old. After brief stints in Texas and New Mexico, her family settled in Lakeland, Florida, where she grew up. She is based in Austin and speaks Spanish fluently.
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