I am a PhD student in Public Policy at Harvard and a fellow in the Program on Science, Technology and Society. My research interests include STS, critical legal studies, law & political economy, and online para-academic movements and philosophical communities.
During the 2022 US election cycle, I worked as a Field Organizer for the Kansas Democratic coordinated campaign in Sharice Davids' district, and volunteered in technical and non-technical roles with Bluebonnet Data, the Kermit Jones campaign in CA-03, and Tech for Campaigns.
From 2020 to January 2022, I was a Technology Fellow in the Federal Trade Commission's Technology Enforcement Division. I researched trends, conducted trainings, translated from tech-speak to lawyer-speak, and assisted with writing, interviewing, and theorizing at various stages of FTC v. Facebook and other digital market competition matters.
In late 2019, I interned for Rep. Jerry McNerney, a Member of Congress representing California's 9th District. I talked with constituents, ran errands, attended hearings, and wrote briefs on technology and telecom issues.
I received my M.A. from the University of Chicago in 2019. My thesis, Privacy and Possessive Individualism in the "Big Tech" Hearings, examined the conceptualization of digital privacy in several Congressional hearings and critiqued the familiar framing of data as property. Occasionally at UChicago, I wrote for the Chicago Maroon and the Harris School's Chicago Policy Review.
Before that, I was a software engineer at Google. I spent two years in Los Angeles building an internal ad tool for trend and audience analysis, before moving up to San Francisco and joining a supplier diversity upstart in Google's in-house incubator. During 20% time, I worked with the Google Civics team to build "Election Insights."