Utami Diah Kusumawati is a teacher, researcher and speaker who is currently a lecturer at Multimedia Nusantara University. She received a master of arts (S2) degree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln with a specialization in data visualization. She also pursued professional education in the field of Computational Journalism at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. In addition, Utami deepened her data journalism skills by participating in the Data Journalism for Investigative Reporting Bootcamp training series held by Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) at Missouri University and the Big Data for Social Science training series held by the Communications and Information Ministry.

Utami has taught and spoken about data journalism for various media organizations, government agencies and universities, including Statistics Indonesia (BPS), the Communications and Information Ministry, Kompas, the Tempo Institute, Airlangga University, Bina Nusantara University Malang, Telkom University, AJI, IDJN and Journocoders Indonesia. She is also a project officer at the Data and Computational Journalism Conference Indonesia (DCJ-CI) event sponsored by the United States Embassy in Indonesia.