Production sociotechnical platform deployed with the NYC Department of City Planning. Led the full development lifecycle — from ethnographic research and participatory design through deployment — building a structured archive of community input that planners use during neighborhood plan development. MIT Prize for Open Data, Honorable Mention.
LumoViz — a relational organizing data platform developed with the Carolina Federation through participatory design, then deployed and iterated in production over three years. Built GCP/PostgreSQL infrastructure and accompanying pedagogy for 20+ data practitioners and grassroots organizers across North Carolina.
Built and evaluated a conversation dynamics visualization tool, developing metrics and a taxonomy for assessing constructive behavior across deliberative conversations.
Led the Metagov Interoperability and Data Mesh working group, coordinating 8 civic technologists across global organizations to develop a data ontology and mesh that lets deliberative platforms interoperate in the field.
Designed and facilitated the sensemaking process for this participatory action research project around the 2021 Boston Mayoral Election. Co-led iterative thematic analysis of 70+ experience-based dialogues with researchers and community fellows Dimitra Dimitrakopoulou, Maridena Rojas, and Somala Diby.
An embodied spatial audio installation built around community-recorded stories.
Civic decision-making platform
A production sociotechnical platform that translates community input into structured infrastructure for neighborhood planning. Multilingual story submission, a public map of resident contributions, and a transparent "vision" layer that shows community members how their input is being used.
Deployed with NYC Department of City Planning — Jamaica (2024) · White Plains Road (2025)
Relational organizing data platform
Production data infrastructure for grassroots organizing federations — relational mapping, conversation tracking, and team-based campaigning. Developed with the Carolina Federation through participatory design over three years; supports 20+ practitioners across North Carolina.
Measurement tools for civic dialogue
An open analysis environment for facilitated conversations — speaker timelines, thread depth, responsivity metrics, and turn-taking networks. Used by researchers and practitioners studying constructive communication in deliberative settings.
Facilitated conversation environment
A synchronous online conversation environment informed by in-person facilitation practices — turn-taking queue, shared guidelines, hand-raising, and consent built into the room itself. The foundational tool behind this line of work.
Theses
Designing Infrastructure for Relational Civic Practices
KEEPER: Online Conversation Support Scaffolding Modeled After Ancient and Modern Social Technologies
Publications
Voice to Vision: Enabling Shared Understanding in Civic Decision-Making through Participatory Data Infrastructure
Connective Democratic Tissue: Second-Order Technologies for Civic Ecosystems
The Impacts of Transparency and Personalization on Feelings of Agency and Connection in Democratic Decision Making
Computational Analysis of Conversation Dynamics through Participant Responsivity
Trust Me: A Sociotechnical, Dialogue-Based, Participatory Program to Build Trust, Hope, and Youth Civic Muscle in Schools
Anonymization of Voices in Spaces for Civic Dialogue: Measuring Impact on Empathy, Trust, and Feeling Heard
Digital Civic Sensemaking: Computer-Supported Participatory Sensemaking of Nuanced, Experience-Based Dialogue
Keeper: A Synchronous Computer-Mediated Communication Environment Informed by In-Person Facilitation Practices to Ease and Improve Online Conversations
Under Review
Infrastructuring Relational Practice: Data Infrastructure for Growing People Power in Grassroots Organizing
In Development
Beyond Deliberation: A Framework for Evaluating Organizing Infrastructure in Civic Technology
Workshops
Confessions of a Participatory Designer: Navigating Values Misalignment in Co-Design Practice
From Tech Lash to Tech Fash: Strategic Reflections on a Decade of Collective Organizing in Computing
Solidarity and Disruption: Collective Organizing in Computing II
Short Papers
Voice to Vision: A Sociotechnical System for Transparent Civic Decision-Making
Applying Large Language Models to Characterize Public Narratives
Towards Interoperability: Pursuing an Ontology for Data Exchange Between Deliberative Democratic Platforms
In Pursuit of Constructive Communication: Designing Tools to Support Development of Constructive Communication Metrics
Interactive Visualizations of Personal Experiences for Shared Sense of Understanding
From Alinsky to Zoom: Understanding Relational, Constituency-Based Organizing in 2021
Keeper: An Online Synchronous Conversation Environment Informed by In-Person Facilitation Practices
RadioSilenced: A Semi-Serendipitous Hyper Local Talk Radio Exploration Tool