Andrew Fan is the executive director at the Invisible Institute, where he coordinates work across the organization’s teams. Andrew was previously the organization’s chief operating officer and a data reporter.
Andrew was part of the team that produced the series “Mauled: When Police Dogs are Weapons,” a year-long investigation into police K-9 units which won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting. Andrew also led a team of City Bureau reporters who partnered with WBEZ to publish “Where Banks Don’t Lend,” a 2020 investigation that revealed racial disparities in Chicago home lending. The series was cited by Illinois lawmakers in passing new bank regulations the following year and was a finalist for the Scripps Howard Award for Excellence in Local/Regional Investigative Reporting.
Andrew has a Master’s in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School, where he was the editor-in-chief of the Asian American Policy Review. Before joining the Invisible Institute he worked at Urban Partnership Bank, a Chicago-based community development bank.