I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Human-Centered Design & Engineering (HCDE) at the University of Washington. At UW, I work with two research groups: the Center for an Informed Public and the Community Data Science Collective. I’m also an affiliate at UNC’s Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life (CITAP).
My research focuses on approaches to governing information-related public goods and knowledge institutions under adversarial conditions. Public knowledge institutions — resources like online knowledge commons, public broadcasters, and independent fact-checking organizations — have come under attack across multiple fronts. These attacks have targeted not only the quality of the knowledge these institutions generate, but the very legitimacy of the underlying resource systems that make this knowledge accessible. My work examines how these attacks manifest, how they are resisted, and how we can design more resilient institutions that can withstand them.
I draw from a range of theoretical perspectives and disciplines, including the new institutionalist tradition in political science, theories of collective action, and the study of disinformation and online information manipulation. I also employ both qualitative and quantitative methods, including interviews and computational analyses of digital trace data.
I’m advised by Kate Starbird and Benjamin Mako Hill.