Michaela Herbst is a is an award-winning journalist. She received her master’s degree in data journalism at Stanford University. She is currently working on the data team at The Associated Press. Herbst received her B.A. in journalism and minor in political science at University of Colorado Boulder. She was previously a Carnegie-Knight News21 Fellow at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism. Michaela is an award-winning journalist for her reporting on “America After Roe.” 

While at Stanford, she has investigated the role artificial intelligence has on abortion access with Google search engines. As a graduate student, she is a reporter for Peninsula Press, a data-driven multimedia project at Stanford. She has reported on Hillary Clinton’s book tour in San Francisco in podcast form, California’s 16th district and the presidential election in print form. She is also the Opinions Editor at The Stanford Daily and has written about Philip Zimbardo, the notorious psychologist behind the Stanford Prison Experiment. She worked in collaboration with The Washington Post to implement natural language processing models to their Pulitzer-Prize winning fatal force police shooting database. She also bring skills in data analytics, Python, broadcast journalism, editing and visualization.