I am a PhD candidate at the University of Michigan School of Information. I'm interested in the political economy of Silicon Valley, especially with regards to the evolving relationship between the Valley and logics of state security after the Cold War. That leads me to draw from critical studies of race, finance, logistics, and tech infrastructures. If you're interested in collaborating, talking, organizing, or working with me in any way, please reach out to me (contact info on right).

I am interested in social movements broadly and supporting the work of organizers through my research and technical work. I helped build Evictorbook, a tool to perform landlord research for tenant organizers, with the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project. I currently work as a research intern for the DAIR Institute, specifically for Dr. Alex Hanna on a project studying campus-based protest movements in the 2010s. One article from this work, focusing on top-line trends in the database we built, is out with Socius now, and more work will be released in 2025.

I am a department steward with the Graduate Employees' Organization at the University of Michigan (AFT Local 3550). I also did work with the TAHRIR Coalition at the University of Michigan. With TAHRIR, I mostly performed research on the UM endowment and relations of power within the university. We published a report on the University endowment and a series of articles on the political allegiances of the Board of Regents, available here. I am also an active organizer with the Ann Arbor Tenants Union, through which I've worked on standing up several tenant associations and building citywide power for tenants. My work as an organizer generally focuses on creating the excitement and analysis needed for formations of workers or tenants to systematically expand and make decisions together -- in other words, the positive practice of organizing necessary to achieve wins while avoiding "leadership" representing or advocating on behalf of members in a union.

Before I became a graduate student at UMich, I was an undergraduate student at Yale University, where I double majored in Ethnicity, Race, & Migration and Statistics and Data Science. My senior thesis, The IMF and Global Dispossession, was advised by Professor Lisa Lowe. I also learned from the late Gary Okihiro, through two courses and a term of independent study with him. These were challenging and transformative intellectual experiences for me, and I am extremely grateful for their illuminating guidance and their encouragement to pursue the work I am doing now. At Yale, I also worked with groups like DataHaven and LEAP.

I am a communist. I am interested in broad questions about racial capitalism and our moment in history, and I see my research and technical work as part of an open-ended project to make sense out of our current material conditions so that we can act against racism, imperialism, and capitalism. "Acting" nearly always means wielding collective power built through mass organizing.