2021
Year in Review

Data Culture is a community of multidisciplinary thinkers and data enthusiasts.

Letter from the founders.

We are humbled to be celebrating another year of exceptional growth at Data Culture. We can’t believe the breadth of work we’ve delivered, from custom data visualizations, to full data stack implementations, to training the next generation of data scientists. But we’re most proud of the team culture we’ve built and incredible relationships we’ve developed with all of you.

An enormous thank you to our partners, clients, team members, and the greater Data Culture community. You fill our days with creativity and collaboration, and inspire us to build the future of Data Culture.

Meet the team

Rhys Berkwitt
Senior Data Strategist

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She/her

Based in

Brooklyn, New York

When I was 5, I was pretty sure that I would be

a wildlife veterinarian when I grew up.

Neil Oliver
Senior Data Visualization Engineer

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He/him

Based in

Bath, United Kingdom

When I was 5, I was pretty sure that I would be

an inventor when I grew up.

Mikaela Ergas Lenett
Data Strategist

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She/her/hers

Based in

Toronto, Canada

When I was 5, I was pretty sure that I would be

a fashion designer when I grew up.

Ku Adofo-Mensah
Director of Strategy

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She/her

Based in

Brooklyn, New York

When I was 5, I was pretty sure that I would be

a backup dancer when I grew up.

Opeyemi Fabiyi
Senior Data Lead

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He/him

Based in

Lagos, Nigeria

When I was 5, I was pretty sure that I would be

a medical doctor when I grew up.

Samantha Lohier
Associate Analytics Engineer

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She/her

Based in

Long Island, New York

When I was 5, I was pretty sure that I would be

an orthodontist when I grew up.

Marisa Ruiz Asari
Senior Data Visualization Strategist

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She/her

Based in

Mannheim, Germany

When I was 5, I was pretty sure that I would be

an artist when I grew up.

Demilade Agboola
Senior Data Lead

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He/him

Based in

Abuja, Nigeria

When I was 5, I was pretty sure that I would be

an accountant when I grew up.

Amina Brown
Data Visualization Engineer

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She/her/hers

Based in

Newport, Rhode Island

When I was 5, I was pretty sure that I would be

an inventor when I grew up.

Bruno Vendruscolo
Senior Data Lead

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He/him

Based in

Sao Paolo, Brazil

When I was 5, I was pretty sure that I would be

just like my mother when I grew up.

Gabi Steele
Co-Founder & CEO

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She/her

Based in

Brooklyn, New York

When I was 5, I was pretty sure that I would be

a painter when I grew up.

Leah Weiss
Co-Founder & CEO

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She/her

Based in

Brooklyn, New York

When I was 5, I was pretty sure that I would be

a journalist when I grew up.

Fernando Reyes Bernal
Data Lead & Front-end Engineer

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He/him

Based in

Mexico City, Mexico

When I was 5, I was pretty sure that I would be

a pizza chef when I grew up.

Mike Weinberg
Data Engineering Manager

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He/him

Based in

San Diego, CA

When I was 5, I was pretty sure that I would be

a race car driver when I grew up.

Shreya Thakur
Junior BI Analyst

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She/her

Based in

Baltimore, Maryland

When I was 5, I was pretty sure that I would be

a doctor when I grew up.

Contributors

Amanda O’Malley
Analytics Engineering
Jonah Kaplan
Analytics Engineering
Lucianne Millan
Data Engineering
Akhila Athresh
Data Engineering
Zhen Jin
Data Engineering
Yael Zlotnik
UX Design
Qasim Ashraf
Analytics Engineering
Ben Prager
Strategy
Singha Hon
Visual Design
Leon Downer
Data Science
Yohan Lee
Software Engineering
Amanda Anderson-You
Data Visualization Design
Ruby Chu
Data Science

Partners

Impact

Graduated 200+ 
Data Science Scholars at Kode with Klossy

Launched Vote.org’s 2020 impact report shared with over 10 million people

Partnered with Parsons School of Design to launch a Racial Equity Initiative

874,417
Lines of SQL written
28
Data warehouses
58,321
Slack messages sent
5,684
Zoom calls
143
Mural boards created
12
Newsletters sent
1,237
Our Slack community members

Worked with clients across the US, Canada, UK, South Africa and Israel

Expanded our team to Brazil, Mexico, Nigeria, UK, Germany, Canada and the United States

Hosted 9 company events!

Became premiere partners with Fivetran and Segment.

Opened our first office in Brooklyn!

Won Fivetran’s Rising Star Partner of the Year award and brought them more business than any other partner!

And built the most exceptional team of 15 data experts!

Stay safe &
See you in 2022!