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About
Writer and researcher who builds and studies information systems for text, data, and images. Working across data journalism, visualization, cryptography, and AI, my work concerns the systems that shape what people can know, verify, communicate, and conceal using different media technologies.
Biography
[ profile ]I am a writer, researcher, data journalist, and content engineer based in New York. My forthcoming book from MIT Press, Cryptographic Amnesia, traces how cryptography moved from the margins of everyday life into the infrastructure of communication and political life. The same question, of who gets to know what and how they can prove it, runs through my work on SecureDrop, newsroom data practice, critical visualization, collaborative photogrammetry, digital typography, and the teaching of computational journalism. I currently write and edit with Google Fonts, build independent software including Kettle and Studio Isruna, and keep up my own long-form writing. I hold a PhD in Communication from Columbia University and have taught journalism, visualization, ethics, and the digital humanities.
Experience
[ timeline ]Enigma
Built the content and communications desk for a business identity data company, joining original reporting with editorial systems for research, production, and competitive intelligence. Promoted from Content Lead.
Linköping University
Researched critical data visualization across Computer Science and Gender Studies; developed and taught a graduate course on gender and diversity in engineering.
University of British Columbia
Conducted research on data sensemaking, visualization, and newsroom practice; taught 10 courses on visualization, ethics, and investigative reporting.
Global Reporting Center
Trained journalists in operational security and source protection; operated a SecureDrop system.
Institute for Investigative Journalism
Led data gathering for a team of investigative reporters; the Tainted Water collaboration won the 2019 CAJ Data Journalism Award, announced in 2020.
Feature writing on open-source typography; edited technical documentation for Android developers.
Brown Institute for Media Innovation
Conducted archival research at eight sites for Cryptographic Amnesia; mentored journalists and artists on digital storytelling.
Tow Center for Digital Journalism
Authored the first published study of the SecureDrop whistleblowing platform.
Education
[ degrees ]Skills
[ capabilities ]Working Approach
My projects combine archival research, interviews, data analysis, and software. I use code not simply to automate production, but to make sources, assumptions, and editorial decisions easier to inspect.
Research & Reporting
Archival research, interviews, public records, quantitative analysis, data journalism, digital security, and source protection.
Editorial & Technical Systems
Technical writing, content design, reproducible data pipelines, model evaluation, agent orchestration, and editorial quality systems.
Tools
Python, SQL, Databricks, DuckDB, Polars, Altair, Marimo, GraphQL, Git, web scraping, and shell scripting.
Funding & Publication Venues
[ context ]Funding
Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program (WASP); Brown Institute for Media Innovation; Knight Foundation; Tow Center for Digital Journalism.
Journals
Journal of Visual Culture; Journal of Communication Inquiry; Leonardo; IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics.