Recently:

  • August 2024: I published a blog piece on my dissertation work with Platypus — The Committee for the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing (CASTAC).
    https://blog.castac.org/2024/08/the-cloud-is-too-loud-spotlighting-the-voices-of-community-activists-from-the-data-center-capital-of-the-world/

  • April 2024: I successfully defended my dissertation!
    Futuring the Cloud: An Ethnographic Study of Critical Data Center Infrastructure Growth, Environmental Threat, and Community Risk
    Thanks to my wonderful committee —
    Dr. Leysia Palen (Information Science & Computer Science, University of Colorado Boulder), Dr. Alison Cool (Anthropology, University of Colorado Boulder), Dr. Ken Anderson (Computer Science, University of Colorado Boulder), Dr. danah boyd (Microsoft Research), Dr. Alix Johnson (International Studies, Macalester College), Dr. Bryan Semaan (Information Science, University of Colorado Boulder)

  • April 2024: I’ve received the “Outstanding Research” award
    from the University of Colorado Boulder Department of Information Science

  • May 2023: I’ve been awarded the Carol B. Lynch Memorial Fellowship from the University of Colorado Boulder Graduate School

  • October 2023: I have a paper accepted to the Climate Justice in Computing workshop at the 2023 ACM conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work —
    The Cloud and Climate Crisis: Designing and Deploying a Sustainable Data Center Infrastructure