News Archive

  • December 2023

    My team and I won a CARTSS grant for $4,000! This grant will support research on the Migrant Sociotechnical Resilience project where we will investigate how digital labor platforms become ingrained in migrant workers' labor market trajectories.

  • May 2023

    I will be joining the Social Media Collective at MSR as a research intern for the summer of 2023. I'll be working on a project to document the infrastructure that supports digital entrepreneurship in the 21st century.

  • April 2023

    I will be presenting my new paper at CHI 2023! Come by our paper session to learn more about how human intervention underpins the gig economy through our case study of an "indie" food delivery platform. We'll also be discussing the limitations of design recommendations and how HCI and CSCW researchers can grapple with these limitations in their work.

  • January 2023

    The Workers Algorithm Observatory Project has been awarded $50,000 by Mozilla as part of the Mozilla Tech Fund 2023 cohort! Our team, consisting of Dan Calacci, Andrés Monroy-Hernandez, and Danny Spitzberg, is working to develop infrastructures that support worker-led inquiry.

  • June 15th, 2022

    Our two-day multi-stakeholder workshop with members of the food delivery industry community was a success! 37 folks from all over the food delivery industry participated over the course of two days. Check out the schedule of events and speakers here!

  • May 15th, 2022

    I started an contract researcher position with Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP)! I'll be working some amazing folks there to explore the landscape of the platform-enabled food delivery industry. We'll be conducting a multi-stakeholder workshop with members of the food delivery industry in June and an empirical study with DoorDash drivers in the fall of '23.

  • May 1st, 2022

    Danny Spitzberg and I wrote for ITforChange and BotPopuli about worker-led organizing in the platform economy, and highlight challenges and opportunities for allies to help with data and tech tools. Check out the piece here!

  • February 14th, 2022

    I started a labor & tech reading group with Mona Wang and Sayash Kapoor! Check out our syllabus and notes from our meetings here. This group is open to anyone so come by anytime! (Meeting information in sylalbus above)

  • January 26th, 2022

    I was featured in a local news report for my work investigating how local "indie-platforms" co-exist with larger mainstream players in the platform economy.

  • August 15th, 2021

    I won the community-based research fellowship at CU Boulder. I'll be doing work with a local gig drivers union to create data-driven narratives from the worker perspective.