I’m a writer, program designer and dancer based in New York City. I’ve spent the last several years researching how people use information technology, but what I care about most these days is how technology is used against people, wielded as a tool to surveil, subordinate and disenfranchise. Most recently, I managed research and partnerships for the Information Futures Lab at Brown University. 

I love teaching and have led workshops for thousands of journalists and organizers around the world, with clients at ABC, Documented, UNICEF, Journalists for Human Rights, Investigative Reporters & Editors, WHO, AfricaCheck, the International Foundation for Electoral Systems in Tunisia, and more.

My masters is from the Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, where I reported on criminal justice reform and incarcerated kids in New York City’s jails. Seeing how some of the most vulnerable people in our society are forced to navigate a cruel and unforgiving system continues to be a lodestar in my career.

I have also worked in food & sustainability and helped develop what eventually became the Culinary Institute of America’s masters program in food business. Off hours, I’m an afro-latin dancer with a primary background in salsa and traditional bachata.