Alina Spatz

Alina Spatz is a former graphic designer at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS). She worked with the creative director to bring CNAS’s research to life through design and visual storytelling. Spatz collaborated with the research and editorial teams on report layouts, cover art, maps, and data visualizations. She also worked with the communications team to create graphics for web and social media.

Previously, Spatz was a newsroom design intern at The Washington Post, where she produced digital interactives, illustrations, print layouts, and visual storytelling for the paper and its social platforms. Her background spans editorial, nonprofit, and political design, with recent roles and internships at Foreign Affairs magazine, Brown Political Review, the Democratic National Committee, and Coding it Forward’s Civic Innovation Corps.

Spatz holds a BFA in graphic design with a concentration in computation, technology, and culture from the Rhode Island School of Design.