The Washington Post taps Tierney as graphics assignment editor for Local

Lauren Tierney is now the graphics assignment editor for Local at The Washington Post. Previously, she was a graphics reporter and cartographer at the Post.

She was also editor of Atlas of Design (North American Cartographic Information Society). She has also worked at National Geographic for more than 2 years, joining as a cartographic production specialist and then holding the post of cartographer and then that of graphics editor, cartography.

She was also a student board member of the North American Cartographic Information Society and a graduate research assistant at the InfoGraphics Lab at the University of Oregon. She has also served as a conservation GIS analyst at Audubon Alaska.

She was also a student cartographic/GIS specialist and then a cartographic/GIS specialist at InfoGraphics Lab.

Tierney is a B.A.in Geography and Spanish and an M.S. in Geography from the University of Oregon.