I'm a fourth year PhD student at the Berkeley School of Information, advised by Professor Niloufar Salehi. My research centers around these research questions: How can we better coordinate and work together at scale, and when is it a good idea to not scale? How can we create computational systems and tools that embody values that are beneficial to our society? How can understanding longstanding traditions of social science inform the ways in which we craft sociotechnical systems and policies? More broadly, I am interested in human-computer interaction, social computing, public interest technology, new media, prefigurative politics, organizational behavior, and Du Boisian sociology.

In another life, I researched task design, organizational behavior, and team viability with Dr. Mark Whiting and Professor Michael Bernstein at Stanford HCI, built chatbots to understand how listening and talking to an AI can lead to more instances of self-disclosure, and drove the design direction of UC Berkeley's largest non-partisan political magazine.

My research career began at UC Berkeley, where I earned an interdisciplinary major in Computer Science, Interaction Design, and Critical Theory. I am lucky to have been involved with the Berkeley Basic Needs Center, Innovative Design, ASUC OCTO, and Barbell at Berkeley.

In other contexts, I enjoy rollerblading, yoga, and snowboarding! I love being outside, and I try to soak up as many photons as I possibly can. 🥺 👉 👈 Talk to me about all things design, psychology & meditation, and how music embodies our cultural zeitgeist!

10/17/22 – Facilitated and co-organized "Who Has an Interest in Public Interest Technology?": Critical Questions for Working with Local Governments & Impacted Communities, a workshop at CSCW 2022.

09/22/22 – Gave a talk about Democratic Engagement and Procedural Justice in Algorithmic School Assignment at Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, in Washington, DC