Sep 2026: I received the National Communication Association Gerald R. Miller Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award!

July 2026: Spent a wonderful month in Seattle as a visiting scholar with the Community Data Science Collective at the University of Washington.

June 2026: I received an Honorable Mention for the Herbert S. Dordick Dissertation Award from the International Communication Association Communication & Technology Division.

Dec 2025: A trip to Ithaca, NY to reunite with Cornell University Digital Due Process Clinic members and collectively be part of a Game Design Workshop to learn about translating research into board games for education, outreach, and inquiry.

Aug 2025: Moved from Chicago to St. Paul, Minnesota to start as a tenure-track assistant professor at Hamline University!

July 2025: I successfully defended my dissertation, “Social Media, Surveillance, and Resistance in and beyond Prison”

Nov 2024: Check out this report on Carceral AI, led by Dr. Dasha Pruss, and co-authored by many academics and activisits. We discuss how carceral AI reinforces structural injustices, expands the reach of carceral systems, and interacts in complicated ways with existing legal systems.

Jan 2024: I was interviewed by Maya Benjamin for the Northwestern Business Review story “To BeReal or not to be real: does the authenticity-promoting app still serve its purpose?”

Aug 2023: I was interviewed by Jessica Matthiesen for Mother Untitled story “Let’s Stop Belittling Care Work — Starting with Mom Influencers”

May 2023: I received the Donald H. and Carolyn E. Ecroyd Fellowship at Northwestern University!

Aug 2022: I was interviewed by P.E. Moskowitz for Business Insider story “Influencers on social media are starting to fight back against the platforms that profit from their followings”

Jan 2022: Two fellow graduate students and I interviewed our lab head, Dr. Moya Bailey, about her work, career, and plans for this new podcast, Digital Alchemy

Dec 2021: I was interviewed by KeShonna Jackson for CornellResearch article “WARNING: Parents on Social Media“

June, 2021: Research I collaborated on was featured in the Cornell Chronicle

Sep 2020: Moved to Chicago to begin my PhD in Media, Technology & Society at Northwestern University!