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LEADS Impact, at a Glance
An infographic distilling $18B in financing reviewed and the Learn–Adapt–Scale method into a single 20-second read, in the visual language of a flagship report.
Communications & Knowledge Management
Research finds its audience when someone builds the bridge.
Communications, at a glance
I turn complex research and data into content that reaches people — across digital, visual, and multilingual channels. Four years doing this at Xinhua, in international development, and in my own work.
This page is a working application for the Knowledge Management & Communications Consultant role at the Development Impact Group (DECDI). It begins with a sample communications set built from DECDI's own LEADS initiative — the kind of products I'd produce week to week — followed by selected work that demonstrates reach, multilingual dissemination, and craft in data visualization.
Below: a sample of what I'd produce for your team, and selected work.
Washington, DC · Available immediately · EN / ZH / ES
Made for your team
A sample communications set
Built from DECDI's own LEADS initiative — the kind of products I'd produce week to week. It starts with a live, interactive piece — then the full set of designed assets.
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financing reviewed
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projects engaged
Hover a city for the workshop detail · circle size = financing reviewed
Interactive · Live
A method that travels
In two years LEADS went from one African region to four convenings across three continents. Hover the map to read each workshop — every figure is drawn from the World Bank's own LEADS pages.
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financing reviewed
across two regional cohorts
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projects engaged
adaptive, evidence-led delivery
up to 0×
greater impact
trial-and-adopt methods
$0M
efficiency gains
at Cape Town alone
The full set · download-ready
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Reading the Evidence
A report-style chart sheet — a coverage-gap waffle, a cost-vs-impact comparison, and DIME's global footprint — built to DIME Analytics' visualization conventions.
Hanyu (Hilda) Wang
Communications & Knowledge Management
Now ·
Evidence only matters when it changes what happens on the ground. That's the idea behind LEADS — Learn. Adapt. Scale.
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Social content
The Economics of Evidence
A scroll-stopping post turning three flagship-report numbers into one argument — shown as it would land in-feed.
Inbox
Development Impact Evaluation News — June 2026
DIME Newsletter · sample issue
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Newsletter
Development Impact Evaluation News
A sample issue built to the newsletter's real remit — lead story, events & courses, new research, from the blog — shown in the inbox.
Infographic · Innovation
Research, Shipped as AI
A product-grid infographic on DIME's AI portfolio — ImpactAI, ZeroHungerAI, EconBERTa and more — showing how a 30+ person team turns rigorous research into systems that governments use.
Sample work created for this application using publicly available World Bank data. Not official World Bank publications.
How this was made
A workflow, not a one-off
Every sample above came out of a documented, source-checked pipeline — and I can work in either of two toolchains, depending on the product.
Workflow 1 — Traditional
Stata · R · Python
Publication-ready statistical charts in DIME Analytics' own stack — direct labels, zero baselines, no chart junk. Reproducible and rigorous.
Workflow 2 — AI-assisted
Claude Code · HTML / SVG
Composed infographics, social cards, and newsletters — web-native, on-brand, and fast, with every figure traced to a public World Bank source.
Both workflows — with runnable code and full data provenance — are published on GitHub ↗.
Selected work
Reaching real audiences
Writing sample
Three Pathways to Decision-Ready Evidence
An independent writing sample translating DIME's AI portfolio — ImpactAI, SocialAI, ZeroHungerAI — into a clear, decision-focused brief on getting evidence to policymakers without losing rigor.
figmeme.app
Audience reach
30,000 Engagements in a Day
A content tool I designed and shipped reached 30,000+ engagements in a single day through deliberate audience targeting and bilingual (EN/ZH) framing.
figmeme.app
Data journalism · Xinhua
Making Quantum Physics Visible
A long-form explainer infographic I designed for Xinhua's Global Digital Desk on the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics — turning a dense quantum result into a scrollable visual story for a general audience. Part of my ongoing “Science, Explained” (唠科) infographic series, published nationally.
What I bring
Skills, channels, and credentials
- Languages
- English · Mandarin · Spanish (published literary translator)
- Tools
- Adobe Creative Suite · Canva · Figma · Data visualization · Web
- Channels
- Newsletter · Social · Web · Events · Data Visualization · Print
- Domains
- Impact Evaluation · Development Policy · Research Translation · AI Governance
- Credentials
- M.S. Public Policy (NYU) · Published at ACM CHI & FAccT 2026 · 4+ years in research communications
Built end-to-end
When I say I make it, I mean all of it
At AI4Life I designed and built the Vibo education platform end to end — the brand and character system, the original music, the game mechanics, and the website itself — and ran the communications for our flagship youth program.
Vibo · AI education platform
Brand, characters, music, game & web — all mine
I created the mascot and full character set, composed the original music, designed the game mechanics, and built the web platform — including an AI mini-game for children with special needs in Boston.
Event communications
Youth AI Video Challenge
I ran end-to-end communications across two cohorts — recruitment, this poster and the promotional content, training-workshop production, judge coordination, and hosting the live awards ceremony. 50+ participants.
Application materials
CV & statement
The short version is here; the full documents are a click away.
Curriculum Vitae
EN · PDFHanyu (Hilda) Wang
Communications & Knowledge Management · Washington, DC
- Policy & Data Analyst, AI4Life Institute — research communications, brand, and multimedia
- Xinhua Global Digital Desk — data visualization and visual explainers from World Bank / IMF / UNESCO data
- M.S. Public Policy (NYU Wagner, STEM) · MicroMasters in Statistics & Data Science (MITx)
- English · Mandarin · Spanish — published literary translator
- Published at ACM CHI & FAccT 2026 · EU AI Act Article 50 submission
Statement of Interest
EN · PDFWhy DECDI, why this role
“DECDI closes the gap between intention and impact. My work has been the same bridge from the communications side — turning rigorous research into content that reaches the people who act on it, across languages and channels.”
The full statement connects three threads: multilingual research dissemination, fluency with the research itself, and end-to-end production of audience-ready knowledge products.
Read full statementFull CV and statement of interest available on request.