I am a postdoctoral research fellow working with Dr. Brooke Foucault Welles. I received my PhD in Complex Systems and Data Science from the University of Vermont's Complex Systems Institute, advised by Laurent Hébert-Dufresne and James Bagrow. I received M.S. and B.S. degrees in computer science and a B.S. in Science and Technology Studies from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. My primary interest is in how the structure of online platforms, including both their technical design and social policies, influences online group behavior. These topics include content moderation and deplatforming, the emergence of alt-tech, decentralized social platforms, and the governance of open source software.

My current work, in collaboration with Robin Lange and Sagar Kumar, studies how open source software projects started as academic initiatives navigate a transition to community-organized post-academic projects. We are particularly interested in how projects' organizational structures change to facilitate more community self-governance and volunteer development, and how these ideas generalize to non-commercial organizing beyond open source software.

In another life I am a data scientist at Distributed Denial of Secrets, a non-profit that publishes leaked and hacked documents in the public interest. In this role I help journalists and academic researchers analyze datasets by building custom search infrastructure and file distribution tools, and I act as a liaison with research labs.