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I was honored to attend and speak at a recent UN event about how AI might be reshaping the contours of human security: Human Security at 30: New Security and Development Horizons in the Artificial Intelligence Age (hosted by the UN Human Development Report Office). It was fascinating to...

We recently co-hosted the Computation + Journalism Symposium 2024 at Northeastern, bringing together academics, journalists, data scientists, editors, and more to explore innovate work at the intersection of fields. Keynotes from Julia Angwin, Aaron Sankin, and Alan Mislove.

Excited to share that the Data Theatre Collaborative won a “Heart of CommUNITY” award from Northeastern University for our work with Livable Streets Alliance and Hyde Park Task Force youth.

I attended csv,conf,v8 in Puebla, Mexico, where I presented a talk on creative approaches to data representation that are more appropriately designed for social justice movemements. This connects to idea in my forthcoming book on “Community Data”. The group was an incredibly kind and we...

I was honored to be invited to give a keynote at the 2023 Information is Beautiful Awards - Day of Inspiration, hosted by the Data Visualization Society. In the talk, called “Questioning Our Data Cultures” I decided to introduce some ideas from the book I’m working on, specifically abou...

I attended the Association of Internet Researchers 2023 conference last week in Philadelphia, where I presented my research on rethinking how we represent data in social justice and community settings. Read the short paper.

I’ll speaking on April 9th with on the Angeles Martinez Cuba (of MIT’s Data + Feminism Lab) on the “Good Data / Data for [Public] Good” Panel at the NULab’s Annual Spring Conference. We’ll be discussing some of the under-construction technology co-design work we are doing with global ad...

I’ll speaking on April 1st as part of the ART/DATA/HEALTH Seminar series, which focuses on communicating public health data creatively during the pandemic (hosted by the University of Brighton). Register now.

I’m excited to be speaking with my collaborator Laura Perovich about our Embodying Information project at the Northeastern University Center for Design’s panel on “The Physical Life of Data”. This panel talk is on Thursday Jan 28,2021 at 12pm (Boston time).

We will be leading a virtual workshop for the Network of the National Library of Medicine. This online workshop is targetted at public librarians across the US. It is scheduled for Tuesday Dec 15th at 2pm EST. Register Now!