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Make Data Work
September 11, 2018: Training & Tutorials
September 12–13, 2018: Keynotes & Sessions
New York, NY
Ann Nguyen

Ann Nguyen
Design Whaler, Whole Whale

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Ann Nguyen evangelizes design for impact at Whole Whale, where she leads the tech and design team in building meaningful digital products for nonprofits. She has designed and managed the execution of multiple websites for organizations including the LAMP, Opportunities for a Better Tomorrow, and Breakthrough. Ann is always challenging designs with A/B testing. She bets $1 on every experiment that she runs and to date has accumulated a decent sum. Previously, Ann worked with a wide range of organizations from the Ford Foundation to Bitly. She is Google Analytics and Optimizely Platform certified. Ann is a regular speaker on nonprofit design and strategy and recently presented at the DMA Nonprofit Conference. She has also taught at Sarah Lawrence College. Outside of work, Ann enjoys multisensory art, comedy shows, fitness, and making cocktails, ideally all together.

Sessions

2:00pm–2:30pm Tuesday, 09/11/2018
How to be aggressively tone-deaf using data; or, We should all be "for-benefits."
Location: 1E 10 Level: Non-technical
Secondary topics:  Ethics and Privacy
Ann Nguyen (Whole Whale)
The for-profit system lacks a conscious and empathy thinking. Ann Nguyen takes a look at the good, the bad, and the ugly of data culture, explores successes in the nonprofit sector, and shows how all companies can adapt a “for-benefit” mindset, merging their data culture with an empathy economy and using data to create and share value among their core audiences. Read more.