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Kat Downs Mulder is an American journalist. She currently serves at The Washington Post as the Managing Editor of digital, photography, video, the copy desk and social media.

Early life and education
Mulder was born in Franklin, North Carolina as the youngest of seven sisters. Her father was a judge and her mother worked as a teacher, waitress, and researcher at Duke University. Mulder worked on her high school’s newspaper as a photographic editor and reporter. She attended the School of Media and Journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she focused her studies on journalism and mass communication. She graduated in 2006. She served as the photo editor for Blue & White Magazine, a monthly feature magazine at UNC Chapel Hill, and was a member of national co-ed service fraternity Alpha Phi Omega.

Career
Following graduation, Mulder began her career with an internship at USA Today creating interactive graphics.2 She then became a website producer at The Baltimore Sun from November 2006 to March 2008.

In March 2008, Mulder began to work at The Washington Post. She started out as an information and news designer, primarily creating interactive maps and multimedia presentations. She then served in the graphics department, where some of her projects included developing the Post's first mobile graphic, "I Voted," in late 2012, overseeing the development of Chartable, a tool allowing reporters to create charts and maps to accompany their stories, and leading the 2016 live election experience on washingtonpost.com. The National Press Foundation in 2016 awarded the newspaper for projects that tallied fatal police shootings and The Waypoint, a visual story exploring immigration through the Greek island of Lesbos. In October 2020, after 12 years at The Post, she replaced Emilio Garcia-Ruiz as Digital Managing Editor.