I am a designer, technologist, and researcher that brings a combination of academic rigor and real-world impact to complex social and technical challenges. I hold a PhD in Human-Centered Computing from Georgia Tech and an MFA in Transdisciplinary Design from Parsons. My research on digital civics, public data, and algorithmic fairness has been published at top venues including ACM CHI, CSCW, and DIS, earning a Best Paper Award (top 1%) and a DEI Recognition Award. My design work has been recognized at Milan Design Week and by the American Society of Landscape Architects. Prior to academia, I worked extensively as a designer and product lead. I previously led design and growth at an online estate sales company, where I helped scale the company from Series A to Series C funding.
I am working with the Atlanta Mayor’s Co*Design lab comprised of Bloomberg i-Team fellows to conduct user and community-based research on green affordable housing. The final deliverable will be a large, participatory design workshop. 01.2026publication accepted
My paper, “Whose Time Counts? Temporal Arrangements in Sociotechnical Infrastructure” was accepted into ACM CHI 2026. I am a co-first author with Catherine Wieczorek. I contributed an ethnographic report of navigating civil appeals process in the magistrate court. 01.2026 admission
I was asked to join the ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)’s Distinguished Review Board. 11.2025 work completion
I completed my work and engagement with Story LLP, where I led Product Management and Design. I oversaw the redesign of our internal document processing pipeline which utilized LLM’s to extract key legal diligence data, revamped all API calls to our client application, and a complete databse restructure.
08.25 publication
My paper with Carl DiSalvo and Amanda Meng, “Accompaniment in Design Research,” was printed in MIT’s Design Issues journal. This work details accompaniment as a meta-method to frame how designers engage with others towards socio-political change.
05.25graduation
I completed my PhD studies in Human-Centered Computing from Georgia Tech’s School of Interactive Computing.
04.25 new commission
I am working with Story LLP as a fractional Head of Product and Design to develop tools for their AI-native law firm. The company develops human-in-the-loop legal automations, AI processing, and legal counsel for early stage start-ups. 04.25 dissertation defense
I successfully defended my dissertation, “Datafications of Eviction in the U.S. South.” 02.25 legisliation
I co-authored SB 251 with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and Housing Justice League’s that updates the State Code to prohibit deceptive fees and enforce transparent pricing in rental market. The bill has Bipartisan sponsorship from Senator Kim Jackson (D) and Russ Goodman (R). I gave expert testimony at the State Capital to advocate for the bill.
02.25 legislation
I provided research and advocacy strategy for HB 305: The Protect the Dream Act, which puts a limit on the number of single-family homes a corporate landlord can own. 02.25 invited talk
I gave a talk, “Following the Data: A Five Year Design Ethnography of Eviction Data” at the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. 11.24 publication + award
My design team received the 2024Social Impact Award from the Georgia Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects for our commission, “The Historic Bruce Street School: DeKalb’s First Black School.” 07.24 publication + award
I held a speculative and participatory design workshop, “Exploring Data and AI Ethics through Public Records.” I was commissioned by the Atlanta Interdisciplinary Artificial Intellgence Network for this work. There were over 50 attendees. 02.24 invited talk
I was invited by the Atlanta Studies Meeting to give a talk, “Tracing the Assembly Line: Unpacking Labor Complexity in Eviction Data Generation.”
Last Updated 02.23.26
SELECTED WORKS
1. Counting Up: Agonistic Data Collection:
How might we collect data that engenders accountability in those with power over eviction?
When Atlanta Legal Aid uncovered reports of judicial misconduct during eviction hearings, they needed a way to act — without putting their relationship with the court at risk. I partnered with the Housing Justice League to design and lead a citizen court watch: a direct action campaign where trained volunteers serve as legal observers to systematically document courtroom proceedings. I recruited and coordinated a team of 11 volunteers — tenant organizers, law students, and mutual aid workers — developing the data collection methodology and tools to capture what was happening in real time. In this project, I detail how I use design ethnography and user research towards political action. This work was subsequently published at the ACM Designing Interactive Systems conference, a top-tier Design conference. It received a Best Paper award (top 1%).
2. The Historic Bruce Street School
How might we re-imagine what a historical ruin can be with past students and present residents?
Commissioned by Arabia Mountain Alliance, DeKalb County, and the city of Lithonia, this project centered on reimagining the ruins of the Bruce Street School — the first public school for African American students in DeKalb County. Built in 1938 with community-raised funds, it was left exposed after a fire for over 66 years. As the design researcher on a multidisciplinary team assembled by Martin Rickles Studio, we designed seven participatory design sessions with over 150 participants, developing a community-centered engagement process that went well beyond the typical public meeting format. Through sensory ethnography exercises, oral and written history collection, and design futures workshops, we facilitated stakeholders’ reconnection with the site's history to collectively envision its future as a community space. This work received the 2023 Professional Impact Award from the American Society of Landscape Architects.
3. Situating Eviction and Housing Datasets
How might we make eviction data actionable for housing justice?
Over 6 years, I have led a sustained effort to make eviction data accessible and actionable — by making data tools and building technical capacity with and across organizations through deep stakeholder engagement. Working alongside the Housing Justice League, I led a team cross-functional team to tackle a fundamental access problem: while eviction records are technically public, aggregated data is locked behind a court data broker and sold to credit and tenant screening services. I brokered access to the raw data through data visualizations and negotiated relationships to cross-reference it with tax assessor and HUD records, transforming disparate datasets into something usable for housing advocates and policymakers. This work seeded a $1.2 million National Science Foundation grant and has been published at the premier HCI conference, ACM CHI. The above visualization is a tracking tool that links eviction data with HUD subsidy data to identify violations of the CARES Act.
4. Exploring Data and AI Ethics through Public Records
How might we allow a diverse public to collaboratively explore the issues of Data
and AI ethics in a material way?
Commissioned by the Atlanta Interdisciplinary Artificial Intelligence Network (AIAI) — a Mellon-funded initiative bridging the humanities and computer science to explore AI, equity, and justice — this project asked sought to create a generative design event that promotes cross-pollination between diverse audiences. I recruited, designed, and facilitated a participatory and speculative design workshop to surface those harms, leading a design team of five to bring together 50+ participants spanning machine learning researchers, city government officials, community organizations, and the local IxDA chapter. The central design challenge was to find artful ways to engage with data implications using public records as the example. We utilized design metaphors about food to design three activities that allowed participants to materially engage with the issues. These ranged from replicating data labor conditions as a food assembly line, design ideation sessions through a World Cafe, and critically making speculative data artifacts.
5. Air Spaces
How might we tangibilize the imperceptible sense of air quality?
Developed in collaboration with Parsons DESIS Lab, NASA Langley, and WeAct — an environmental justice non-profit in Harlem — this project investigated new forms of citizen engagement around climate change and air quality inequity. NASA was preparing to launch TEMPO, a satellite capable of producing unprecedented high-resolution air quality data across North America, while WeAct had been running citizen science campaigns in Harlem, where asthma rates are disproportionately high. The tension was clear: high-level satellite data is detailed but inaccessible, while citizen-generated data is often dismissed in policy decisions due to calibration inconsistencies. Our design response reframed the body itself as a sensor — creating a space where people could translate lived, bodily experience into personal testimony capable of driving advocacy. We built a physical, media installation that created a physical space for mindfully engaging with air quality inequity.