About

Hi! I’m a PhD student at the University of Michigan School of Information. My research broadly explores how to build capacity for the abolition of oppressive sociotechnical systems, recognizing that these systems exist within and are built upon broader, structural injustices that must also be dismantled. Right now, I’m pursuing two projects about how people across the US are organizing against AI systems and infrastructure imposed on them by Big Tech and the state. Before my PhD, my undergraduate thesis analyzed for-profit mobile health apps to argue that their features make health benefits secondary to the extraction of user data, and I wrote a paper inspired by Erik Olin Wright on the power structures that enable algorithmic injustice.

As an undergraduate, I was a researcher at the UVA School of Engineering and Applied Science’s Human-AI Technology Lab for three years. My undergraduate research was supported by two Dean’s Undergraduate Research Fellowships. In Fall 2024, I was named as a finalist for the Computing Research Association’s 2024-25 Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award, and in Spring 2025 I was named as an honorable-mention for the NSF GRFP!

Outside of my research, I’m an avid rock climber (bouldering and sport), coffee nerd, and tinkerer. I also enjoy poetry as a form of self-expression, you can read some of my writing here!