I'm interested in how tech systems can actually work for the people they're meant to serve, especially AI systems. I find myself constantly asking whether a given system should exist at all, and who it really serves.
Right now, I'm at the Gates Foundation building and evaluating AI tools for global health, climate, and agriculture. I come to this work with some skepticism: AI for social impact isn't a given, it's a series of choices. Before this, I was a research associate on the AI team at the Council on Foreign Relations, and I worked on cyber policy at the Atlantic Council, looking at how geopolitical competition shapes emerging technologies.
Earlier, I spent a year in Tanzania as a Princeton in Africa fellow, working on digital literacy and tech education. That experience still shapes how I think about most of this.
I studied computer science at Washington University in St. Louis, with a focus on where technology, policy, and equity meet. My work has cut across research and product roles in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors, including reporting on AI, surveillance, and human rights in East Africa as a researcher at Coda Media, and publishing on facial recognition and digital surveillance at the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project.
Outside of work, you'll usually find me behind a film camera, in the water surfing, watching documentaries, or deep in a historical fiction novel (shoutout to Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi).
