Navigating Digital Welfare

Profile

My research and teaching interests focus on open and administrative data, automation in social services, activists' data practices, civil society and democracy, social justice and the city, cultural mapping, and libraries of things. I use methods of participant observation, interviews, GIS and participatory mapping, drawing from the fields of STS, media studies, information studies, critical data studies and critical cartography.

I earned a Ph.D. in Information Studies from University of California, Los Angeles, in 2017. I have a MLIS from the University of California, Los Angeles (2016) and a Masters in New Media from the University of Amsterdam (2010). Prior to my Lectureship I was was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Digital Civil Society Lab at Stanford University.