Canopy’s Lab Notes: Entry #1 on Divergent Stacked Bar Charts

Canopy’s Lab Notes: Entry #1 on Divergent Stacked Bar Charts

The Canopy Lab is excited to announce our new series: Canopy’s Lab Notes. This new series will feature a behind-the-scenes look into our thinking and our processes, as we help our partners navigate complexity through a systems lens. The Canopy Lab was contracted by USAID Feed the Future Market Systems and Partnerships (MSP) Activity in Spring 2021 to conduct a rapid online survey exploring the impact of the pandemic on the work lives of Market Systems Development professionals. In this first Lab Notes entry, Senior Consultant Laura Kim shares her journey in trying to tell a better story through data visualization.

Andrew Panton

Senior Consultant

I am committed to improving human livelihoods and resilience in balance with nature. At the Canopy Lab, I provide research and advisory support to projects working on biodiversity conservation, climate change adaptation and resilience, nature-based solutions, sustainable tourism, and market systems development. Outside work, I’m a keen guitarist, cyclist and bookworm, with a love for food, travelling and learning languages.

JESSICA RUST-SMITH

Senior Consultant

I work across markets, business and supply chains, impact investing, agriculture, and women’s economic empowerment. I am an experienced monitoring, evaluation, research and learning consultant and project manager with expertise in the use of mixed methods, theory-based approaches and data collection and analysis. I have been working in M&E for market systems development for 10 years now, and going strong.