Willem Dehaes
willemdehaes@gmail.com
Block
I spent three years working for the Funding and Liquidity team at Square Banking...
ENGINEERING
Roots Studio
Roots Studio works with artists in India and China, digitizes their art and stories and licenses them to global fashion brands...
Automating Local Education News
Over the summer of 2019, I worked as a “local news automation fellow” for the Associated Press...
DATA
Residential Evictions and Right To Counsel
Interactive map showing eviction and household financial data per NYC neighborhood.
Kizzy
At the peak of her limbo career in the ‘80s, Earlyn “Kizzy” Ferguson was known for bending her body under a flaming bar balanced on two bottles of Coca-Cola about 18 inches high...
REPORTING
Educating Tenants on their Right to Counsel
Ciara Ward was doing her laundry in Bedford-Stuyvesant on a recent Sunday afternoon. Ward, who lives around the corner from the laundromat, is fighting an eviction case brought by her landlord...
The Road to 225 Words per Minute
In 2005, after working for 15 years as a court reporter at the Bronx Criminal Court, Oscar Garzon began teaching others the art of documenting what judges, lawyers, defendants and witnesses say during court proceedings...
Haunted Garden
A dinosaur comes running around the corner of South 2nd Street, followed by Super Mario and a bespectacled aviator. Soon, two dozen trick-or-treaters have gathered in front of the garden gate...
Shanghai: An Umbrella Story
Three years ago, I had the opportunity to study a semester abroad in Shanghai...
PERSONAL
The White Knight
The white knight looked around the long, unfamiliar hallway and pulled his surcoat straight. Standing in the bright neon lights...
Spars and Ropes
Uncooked spaghetti and marshmallows, these modest foods color one of my fondest memories: playing traditional Belgian youth movement games with a class of Chinese teenagers in Shanghai...