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Jillian Kumagai

Jillian Kumagai was the visuals editor at ProPublica. She worked on development and design of visual storytelling, especially photography.

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Jillian Kumagai was the visuals editor at ProPublica. She conceptualized and edited visual storytelling, with a focus on photography. Her work has been recognized with honors from PDN, Photoville, and American Photography.

She was previously an editorial fellow at The Atlantic, where she produced, edited, and wrote stories about international affairs and culture. She has a bachelor’s degree in English and political science from Barnard College.

The Black American Amputation Epidemic

Black patients were losing limbs at triple the rate of others. The doctor put up billboards in the Mississippi Delta. Amputation Prevention Institute, they read. He could save their limbs, if it wasn’t too late.

by Lizzie Presser,

Trashed

Hell on Wheels: The Rogue World of One of New York’s Major Trash Haulers

Fatal accidents, off-the-books workers, and a union once run by a mobster.

by Kiera Feldman, Voice of America, special to ProPublica,

How the U.S. Triggered a Massacre in Mexico

The inside story of a cartel’s deadly assault on a Mexican town near the Texas border — and the U.S. drug operation that sparked it.

by Ginger Thompson,

Machine Bias

Minority Neighborhoods Pay Higher Car Insurance Premiums Than White Areas With the Same Risk

Our analysis of premiums and payouts in California, Illinois, Texas and Missouri shows that some major insurers charge minority neighborhoods as much as 30 percent more than other areas with similar accident costs.

by Julia Angwin, Lauren Kirchner, Surya Mattu,

Wasted Medicine

What Hospitals Waste

The nation’s health care tab is sky-high. We’re tracking down the reasons. First stop: A look at all the perfectly good stuff hospitals throw away.

Marshall Allen,