Poverty Tracker

Interative Data Design
Fathom worked with the Robin Hood Foundation over the course of several years to build out a series of reports on poverty in New York City into something interactive and accessible to the public. I was the lead designer for a system of graphics to explore poverty’s longitudinal effects, allowing users to see track how individuals move in and out of poverty, as well as what demographics are most vulnerable. 


I designed this project documentation video to show the different methods we used to visualize the data on poverty in NYC across three years.



I developed this interactive design to show the breakdown of how poverty persisted among different demographics across the three-year study.






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Education

Rachel holds a MFA from RISD in graphic design. She has also taught graphic design at MassArt and has been a visiting critic at Boston University, Wesleyan, Northeastern, and Washington University in St. Louis. She currently works for the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
Clients

General Electric, The Girl Scouts of America, Yale School of Drama, The Boston Globe, The New York Times, The Washington Post, iHeartRadio, Pretty Good Friends, and Amazon.