Hay Kranen…

• was born (1983) and raised in Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
• studied at the Utrecht school of the Arts (Design & Technology) and did the EMMA-master program in Hilversum.
• was one of the founders of the crossmedia desk at de Volkskrant, the leading quality newspaper in the Netherlands, and worked as a newsroom developer there.
• co-founded Hackastory, an innovation agency specialised in journalism.
• worked as a frontend developer for VPRO Digital in Hilversum.
• was co-editor-in-chief for 365dagenkunst.nl, the site with a fresh piece of art every day.
• graduated with a thesis about narrative history in digital media.
• was a board member for Wikimedia Nederland.
• was an interaction designer at ActiveVideo Europe / Avinity.
• is an atheist. Why? Ricky Gervais explains it better than i do.
• knowns that this first name might lead to confusion. It is pronounced as ‘Hi’, not like ‘Hey’ or ‘Hay’.
• Apart from being my name, “Hay” also means “two” in Vietnamese, “there is” in Spanish and “yes” in Japanese.