I'm a fourth year PhD student at the Berkeley School of Information, advised by Professor Niloufar Salehi. I design and build sociotechnical systems in high-stakes policy contexts and, I study how embedded values, such as scalability, in social media platforms change the way we collectively organize and navigate political change. More broadly, my research is in the field of human-computer interaction, social computing, public interest technology, and new media.
In another life, I researched task design, organizational behavior, and team viability 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.
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
09/21/22 – Awarded Meta Resarch Grant for Fairness in Two-Sided Markets: "Community-centered design of school assignment mechanisms for equity"
01/01/22 – Awarded Grant from the National Science Foundation on "DASS: Legally & Locally Legitimate: Designing & Evaluating Software Systems to Advance Equal Opportunity"
01/01/21 – Earned the Center for Technology, Society, and Policy Fellowship for 2021
My—non-research related—projects. From graphic design to digital fabrication, I've always loved making things.