Alyssa (she/her) is a fifth-year PhD candidate working with Brooke Foucault Welles and David Lazer. Her current work focuses on the human impacts of (and the ways humans can impact) sociotechnical systems. She looks at three networked phenomena in her research – civic discourses, attention dynamics, and information spread – and analyzes how they influence power in networked sociotechnical systems. She uses mixed methods, ranging from terabyte-scale datasets to autoethnography, to make sense of the world. Before joining NetSI, she received a B.S. in Humanities and Engineering with Comparative Media Studies and Computer Science from MIT in 2017; after that, she worked in tech for 4 years.

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