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As a Fellow at MIT’s Center for Future Civic Media, I engage with research and initiatives centered around news and information distribution to communities. I’m also a Research Associate in Marketing at Harvard Business School with Professor Norton, looking at networks, social dynamics, self-awareness and consumer behavior. I work with the Venture CafĂ©, a “location-based” social networking resource, aka a place to meet people in the Boston start-up scene.

I’ve previously worked for Mozilla’s Drumbeat initiative, blogged for Stanford Law School, studied online cooperation and Herdict at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. As an undergrad I received a Knight grant to make free and open-source software for small-town and student newspapers. I graduated Phi Beta Kappa from UCLA with a BA in Design | Media Arts and hold an EdM from Harvard.