I am a PhD Candidate in the Department of Information Science at Cornell University where I research the creative use of digital tools in post-colonial and post-conflict settings. 

I utilize my academic background in the history of science (BA Harvard College; MPhil University of Cambridge) and professional experiences in the technology industry and the international development sector to approach questions of global computing with multiple lenses. I have had ongoing ethnographic and archival research in the arts & technology communities of Phnom Penh, Cambodia since January 2014, including 20 months of full-time research from June 2017 until January 2019. 

I am advised by Steve Jackson (Information Science, chair), Karen Levy (Information Science), Marina Welker (Anthropology), Tamara Loos (History), and Nicola Dell (Computer and Information Science). 

I have received funding for my research from the National Science Foundation, Intel, Cornell’s Einaudi Center for International Studies, a Foreign Language and Area Studies fellowship, the Design Technology Lab of NYU Abu Dhabi, and others.