Hi, I work as an un-disciplinary artist, scholar, educator, ethnographer, designer, and strategist.

My scholarly work looks at what it means to become data-driven and the consequences of reimagining government and cities (Los Angeles in particular) in the image of silicon-valley smartness. I trace the ~2010s era of open data through our current moment of AI to identify transformations in the labor of administration, the experience of city living, the aesthetic contours of the urban, and the naturalization of sur/dataveillance + its consequences for minoritized communities.

I research through ethnography, community engagement, design and visual arts, material semiotic approaches, historical analysis, and through community organizing—as well as through everyday noticing / existing /caring. My doctoral work was based on a 2 year participant observation study with the LA Mayoral Data Team and several years of supporting local activists around housing justice and against state surveillance and data-driven policing in LA County.

I teach topics at the intersection of technology and society and: the environment; the city; critical data studies; disability studies. I am currently a distinguished fellow in the public lab / digital civics initiative at northeastern university and a researcher at olin college of engineering. I recently completed a computing innovation fellowship working on a relational, community-engaged environmental data justice project in the Greater Boston area. My research interests & creative practices encompass: science and technology studies; feminist geography; infrastructure studies; environmental history; participatory ethnography; design; abolitionist imaginaries; crip & queer theory; print and image making; and mixed media visual arts.

I am also a prolific napper, a lover of all things audio, an adequate cat dad to Merope (aka Mimu). I theoretically enjoy playing soccer, learning piano (as an adult beginner—very humbling), psychology and mysticism in equal measure, giving great advice that I don't myself adhere, experiencing awe in built and natural environments (if such distinctions must be made), and learning (I am essentially 87 hobbies in a trench coat). I am perpetually plagued by my unlived lives.