I’m an interdisciplinary researcher and ethnographer interested in technology and social justice, particularly in relation to how the tech industry and corporate power are reshaping the economic and political landscapes of labor within the United States. Over the years, my work has been situated somewhere between research, policy, education, and broader public communication as I’ve moved across dozens of projects.

Over the past ten years, I’ve worked as a researcher on Data & Society’s Labor Futures initiative, where I’ve worked on in-depth, qualitative investigations focused on understanding how new technologies often deepen and entrench existing inequities and social precarities, particularly in low-wage and feminized industries. My past projects have explored the devaluation and surveillance of care labor within the gig platform economy, the human labor behind automation within service industries and agricultural labor, worker data rights and resistance against data commodification, the intersections of state surveillance, disability, and criminalization within the US welfare systems, and companies’ exploitation of gaps in labor protections in the post-Covid era onwards. In the past, I’ve also worked more broadly on issues of digital surveillance and civil rights in finance, education, the criminal legal system, and elsewhere.  

Currently, I’m working on co-organizing a multi-year collaborative project investigating worker impacts of AI across industries, as well as collaborating with Zoe West and Sanjay Pinto (Cornell ILR School’s Worker Institute) and the Model Alliance on a project investigating how AI is reshaping the fashion modeling industry.

I’m passionate about bridging research and advocacy, including accessible public writing, and facilitating events and workshops that can mobilize and connect people across backgrounds. In addition to my publications, I’ve also written in media outlets, including The Guardian (where I was a guest editor with Dr. Virginia Eubanks for a special series on automating care), Tech Policy Press, FastCompany, and Slate. 

I’m currently a 2025-2026 Fellow at the Siegel Family Endowment (and previously a 2024-2025 Fellow). 

I have a Masters degree in Social Sciences (Anthropology) from the University of Chicago (’13), where I also received an undergraduate degree in Anthropology (’11).