Anastasia Valeeva is a co-founder of School of Data Kyrgyzstan, assistant professor at the American University of Central Asia, data journalism trainer and researcher. She has taught data journalism at Data Bootcamps in Montenegro and Germany, UNDP Data Journalism Summer Institutes in Kyrgyzstan and Albania, at the Higher School of Economics, Russia and is currently a data journalism lecturer at the American University of Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan. She has researched the use of open data in investigative data journalism as part of her fellowship at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Oxford. At School of Data Kyrgyzstan, she works on building data literacy skills in society and proactively shaping data community in the region.