I am currently a PhD student at the University of Michigan School of Information (UMSI). My research focuses on leveraging, negotiating, and empowering socio-technical participation and inclusion of marginalized/multi-marginalized communities in computing contexts. I explore such interventions through embodied, participatory, and community-based design practices with the goal of bringing authentic impact for asset-building in these communities.

I am advised by Dr. Oliver Haimson and Dr. Tawanna Dillahunt and am a member of Community Research on Identity and Technology (CRIT) Lab and Social Innovations Group (SIG). 

My background includes material fabrication, creative technologies, game design, UI/UX, and fine arts practices. In my spare time, I enjoy hiking, walking around town, listening to music, watching films, playing video games, having creative projects, cooking, or taking care of my houseplants and my cats who destroy said houseplants.

Pronouns

they/he

Areas of interest

HCI, critical design, social computing, embodied interaction, community, intersectionality, multi-marginalized populations 

Education

PhD in Information, University of Michigan Ann Arbor (2024-present)
MS in Creative Technologies + Design, University of Colorado Boulder (2018-2020)
BA in Art and Art History, University of Colorado Boulder (2013-2018)