December 2023 – Panel organizer at the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S), Hawaii, U.S. Panel title: Data Devices: Governing care, bodies, and market. Panel presenter, paper title: ‘Data Device as Market Device: API Standards in the U.S. Healthcare Industry’.
Fall 2023-Spring 2024 – Co-facilitator of the UM Science and Technology Studies Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop.
July 2023 – First-authored paper, “Navigating the Empty Shell: The Role of Articulation Work in Platform Structures”, published in a special issue of the Journal of Computer Mediated Communication on the future of work.
May 2023 – Attended the Platform Economies Research Network Workshop on “Economization, Part 3: A Research Programme for the Study of Platforms”. The New School, New York, NY. May 2023.
February 2023 -Attended Platforming/Unplatforming Research Workshop in L.A., Feb 4-7.
November 2022 – First-authored paper, “An Approximation of Freedom: On-demand Therapy and the Feminization of Labor”, published in Computer Supported Cooperative Work.
Co-organizer for CSCW ’22 Workshop, “Solidarity & Disruption: Collective Organizing in Computing II”
October 2022 – Presented in a 10-person workshop on “Platform Ambivalence”, hosted by the Platform Labor Project and the University of Amsterdam. My presentation was titled: “Experiencing teletherapy platforms as “empty shell”: on the strategic ambiguity of gig work platforms”.
September 2022 – Presented a poster at the 35th annual Org Comm Mini-Conference (OCMC) in Austin, Texas.
Fall 2022 – Graduate Student Instructor for SI 501 – Contextual Inquiry and Consulting Foundations
July 2022 – Presented at EASST in Madrid, on a panel titled “Datafication Goes Material”. My presentation was titled “Mapping the datafication of U.S. healthcare: a comparative topographies approach to the study of datafication.”
Summer 2022 – Employed as a Graduate Student Research Assistance for Casey Pierce. Conducted another round of research on teletherapy platform workers, building on summer 2020 research.
May 2022 – Presented at ICA Communication & Technology Division (CAT) in Paris, “The Role of Performativity in Platformization: A Case Study”
May 2022 – Received UMSI Team Award for Impact in Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion for work as co-organizer of the Race & Tech Reading Group
Winter 2022 – Graduate Student Instructor for SI611, “Managing Health Informatics”
November 2021 – Completed CRLT’s 2-week asynchronous workshop, “Teaching for Accessibility”
October 2021 – Participated in the CSCW ’21 workshop, “The Future of Care Work: Towards a Radical Politics of Care in CSCW Research and Practice”
September 2021 – Presented as part of the panel, “Theorizing Care & The Digital” at SLSA (Society for Literature, Science & The Arts) 2021
Summer 2021 – Graduate Student Instructor for Masters of Applied Data Science (MADS) Courses, SIADS 601, Qualitative Inquiry for Data Scientists and SIADS 503, Data Science Ethics
May 2021 – Accepted to and completed the 2-week “Institute for Social Change” program at U of M
May 2021 – Participated in the CHI ’21 workshop, “This Seems to Work“
October 2020 – Participated in the CSCW ’20 workshop, “Collective Organizing and Social Responsibility“
Fall 2020 (ongoing) – Began co-organizing the UMSI reading group on Race & Technology for PhD students and faculty
Fall 2020 – Graduate Student Instructor for SI 501 – Contextual Inquiry and Consulting Foundations
August 2020 – Participated in the EASST + 4S ’20 workshop, “Student Section of the Society for Social Studies of Science (6S)”
April 2020 – Elected by the UMSI PhD student body to the 2020-2021 Doctoral Executive Committee (DEC)
February 2020 – Attended STS Futures Symposium at York University, Toronto
October 2019 – My colleague Becky Williamson presented our paper, “Methodological modifications when testing machine learning enabled products: A preliminary framework” at the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 2019 Annual Meeting in Seattle
August 2019 – Moved from Queens, NY to begin my PhD in Ann Arbor
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