The journey so far…
I recently received an email which said, “I’m interested in learning more about you and your journey to where you are today,” so I thought I’d describe how I went from studying visual arts to analyzing data at Wikimedia Foundation (WMF). Growing up I excelled in visual arts and mathematics at school, and they continued to be my strongest subjects. My parents and I immigrated to US from Russia when I was 10, and I spent the first few years focused on learning English – which was especially difficult because I was the only Russian-speaking person at my school.