Activism + Organizing
I co-authored a paper with Ben Gansky, entitled “Cou nterFACCTual: How FACCT undermines its organizing principles. We presented this paper at ACM’s FACCT conference in South Korea, with the intention of helping shape the AI design discourse away from pre-deployment, “in the lab” approaches to social outcomes (like fairness, accountability, and transparency), and toward facilitating integration with existing institutional structures and social justice processes.
ACM FACCT + AI Design
Ebola, Contact Tracing + Digital Experimentation Ethics
I’ve been researching, writing, and advocating around the digital transformation of contact tracing since the 2014 Ebola epidemic. That work includes first-person technical and legal research, support and capacity building for vital service organizations, and broad public activist and policy education and engagement.
Access to Justice
I have worked researched, designed technology for, and deployed systems that have improved the quantity, quality, and efficiency of legal services. I believe that until people are able to pursue their rights directly and equitably, our systems are de facto unjust. The access to justice gap is a foundational element of any serious approach to architecting a just digital world.
Data Governance Design Conference
In 2019, I led the organization of the Data Governance Design Conference, in partnership with Duke’s Center on Law & Technology, Stanford’s Digital Civil Society Lab, and the Ostrom Workshop, among others. Learn more.
Sidewalk Labs + Toronto
I supported public institutions, community activists, and civil society litigants with data governance expertise in evaluating Sidewalk Labs’ proposed development in Quayside, Toronto. I played a small role, but involved working across a range of interventions, and Sidewalk Labs ultimately abandoned its bid. My expert testimony [pdf] for the Canadian Civil Liberties Association and more in the Writing section.