I currently study economics at the New School for Social Research in NYC and serve as the Chief Technology Officer of Invicta, a software company for Democratic political campaigns. I also teach and am available for consulting on various projects.
My research interests broadly include heterodox economics, STS, and social science methodology. I completed an M.A. in Public Policy at Harvard with fields in STS & economics (with Sheila Jasanoff) and the cultural study of digital organizations (with Gabriella Coleman). I was a fellow in the Program on Science, Technology and Society.
During the 2024 US election cycle, I worked with DigiDems to provide data and general support for Missy Cotter Smasal's bid for US House in Virginia's second district. In the 2022 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 an 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."