I am a Ph.D. cultural anthropologist researching how people approach, use, and experience digital and mobile media. I have done fieldwork in South Korea with digital gamers and e-sports fans, researched digital financial services and cooperative financial institutions in the United States, advocated for targets of online hate and harassment, and tracked networked incitement to political violence on social media, among many other projects. 

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With over ten years of practical experience using qualitative and quantitative research methods, I apply critical thinking and interpretive analysis informed by an ethnographic sensibility to solving problems through careful, iterative research. Based on insights gained through observing everyday practices, I address shifting expectations for labor, community, and politics in the contemporary world, and identify gaps between people's needs and desires and the tools that are available to them. I use communication skills honed as an educator at some of the world's top universities to make the implications of my research legible for multiple stakeholder groups.