Fighting Blind

Jim Rendon

Jim Rendon is a freelance writer who covers science, the environment, business and plenty of other topics. His work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine and newspaper, Wall Street Journal, Time, Mother Jones, Marie Claire, Fortune, Men's Journal, SmartMoney and other publications. His most recent book, Upside: The New Science of Post-Traumatic Growth, was published in 2015 by Touchstone.

Heather Krause

Heather’s invaluable contribution included working with the Orb team to gather, prepare and analyze data. Heather is a professionally trained mathematical statistician with years of working on complex research problems for non-profit and NGO organizations. She is the founder and principal consultant at Datassist and has worked on every continent except Antarctica. She has a strong love of finding data, analyzing it in creative ways and using cutting edge visualization methods to visualize the results. Her emphasis is on combining strong statistical analysis with clear and meaningful communication.