UPDATES

02.2026

new commission

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.

01.2026

publication 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.

05.25

graduation

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 paper, “A Cross Community Comparison of Muting in Conversations of Gender-based Violence,” was published in ACM CSCW and received a DEI Recognition. I am one of four first authors (Jasmine Foriest, Shravika Mittal, and Kirsten Bray).

11.24

publication

My paper, “Using Annotated Portfolios to Interrogate Speculative Designs: The Case of Emergent Data Trails,” was published in ACM OzCHI.

08.24

award

My design team received the 2024 Social 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

My paper, “Counting Up: Designing Agonistic Data Collection in the Court Room,” was published and presented in Copenhagen at ACM DIS. I received a Best Paper Award (top 1%)

07.24

workshop completion

Our workshop, “Making Trouble: Techniques for Queering Data and AI Systems,” was a success in Copenhagen for ACM DIS.

07.24

consortium

I was invited to and attended the doctoral consortium at ACM DIS where I presented my research, “Doing What Counts: Following Eviction Data from the Community to the Court”

05.24

publication

My paper, “Sitauting Datasets: Making Public Eviction Data Actionable Towards Housing Justice,” was published in ACM CHI. I led as first author.

05.24

publication

My paper, “Cruising Queer HCI on the DL: A Literature Review of LGBTQ+ People in HCI,” was published in ACM CHI. I am one of three first authors, along with Jordan Taylor and Ellen Simpson.

03.24

workshop completion

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