Hello!

I’m a multidisciplinary researcher & technologist, studying how communities reassert power over the technology entering our lives. My early work focused on housing policy, especially the relationship between place, race, power, and capital. I now study the impact of digital technologies on these power structures, with a particular focus on political economy, agency, and democracy. Today, I conduct research, influence policy, build programs, and organize the philanthropic, public, and private sectors towards protecting the public good in our technological future.

Currently, I direct the Trustworthy Infrastructures Program at Data & Society. I also teach about racial capitalism and segregation at NYU’s Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.

Before that, I served as the Tech Fellow for Ford Foundation’s Civic Engagement and Government team, building strategy, programs, research, and directing funding to address technology’s impacts on access to democracy, elections, voting rights, organizing, and movements. I also worked with the Surveillance Resistance Lab, examining surveillance through the lens of procurement and AI governance.

In the past, I’ve built civic tools for the City of Boston, the Government of Sierra Leone, and alongside researchers, organizers, and academics looking to protect voting rights. I started out at the Urban Institute.

As a Master’s student at MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning, I explored the implications of technical systems on the agency and power of unhoused individuals and service agencies, worked with environmental justice organizers to build data sovereignty into our work, and co-edited a book on fair housing and racial justice. 

These days I also regularly consult, providing strategic, subject matter, or development support to civil society organizations and individuals working to address tech’s role in society. I’m currently serving on the board of NTEN, supporting urban resilience work with the Open Cities Lab in South Africa, building advocacy work with the Coalition for Independent Technology Research, and reading short stories.

Aside from those things, I’m sewing clothes, playing jazz, and riding my bike in Brooklyn. Please don’t be a stranger!