Jaimi Dowdell: Reynolds Center presenter
Jaimi Dowdell joined IRE as a training director in October 2008. She taught this workshop in Atlanta and Milwaukee in 2010.
Before joining IRE, she was computer-assisted reporting editor at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for more than three years. Her duties included obtaining and analyzing data for daily and long-term stories; training staff on CAR and investigative techniques; and maintaining the newspaper’s online data center. In addition to her work at the Post-Dispatch, she taught a CAR course for Washington University in St. Louis.
Dowdell worked at IRE and NICAR in the Database Library and Resource Center while completing her master’s degree at the University of Missouri.
- Dowdell can be reached at Jaimi Dowdell.
- Follow her on Twitter at @jaimidowdell.




