Michelle Bloom is CoinDesk’s Senior Social Media Editor. She is an Ohio-based visual journalist and audience specialist with a knack for making complex topics digestible and accessible to social audiences. At Politico, Michelle helped recreate the news outlet’s visual storytelling and social media strategy. She also worked as a social media strategist for the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists’ high-profile rollout of the Pandora Papers. A member of the Knight Wallace for Journalists’ 2019 cohort at the University of Michigan and a graduate of Ohio University's Magazine Journalism program, Michelle has received two Awards for Excellence from the Society for News Design.