graduate school research:
Currently, I’m working on a paper that historicizes the introduction of Electronic Death Registration Systems for a workshop on historical data and disease organized by the Epidemy Lab at the University of Edinburgh. I’ll be presenting part of this research at ICOHTEC-SHOT in July 2024.
At the May 2023 International Conference on Computer Ethics: Philosophical Enquiry, I presented a paper on medical scribes and their role in salvaging the utility of electronic health records. I also presented this research in October 2023 at the Leibniz AILab’s Trustworthy AI Lab.
My master’s thesis is about the women who operated the Voder, the electrical speech synthesis machine presented by AT&T/Bell Labs at the 1939 New York World’s Fair. I shared part of this research in September 2023 at SIGCIS, then presented an updated version in March 2024 at the Midwest Junto for the History of Science.
a random sampling of pre-grad school journalism & public writing:
For The COVID Tracking Project at the Atlantic, I published multiple pieces on the challenges and quirks of COVID-19 data.
For Spotlight PA, a few pieces stand out: I wrote about a debate coroners had with state health officials, a major health system that made dishonest claims about the severity of the virus, and a major university that forced students to assume all risk of COVID-19. (Prior to the pandemic, I also reported on Pennsylvania’s new system of automated guardianship oversight.)
The majority of my work at the New York Times was behind the scenes, contributing to internal software for research and reporting. Occasionally, I worked on public-facing projects, like this story on state-level abortion restrictions. In 2018, I wrote about how and why I convinced the Styles desk to send me to Atlantic City to help cover the 👑 Miss America 👑 pageant. I also co-edited Times Open, a blog about making digital products at the New York Times.
I wrote about my decision to leave journalism for Source, a blog from OpenNews. Poynter also once interviewed me about my beloved little poop bot, which I built for Vermont Public Radio.
For Increment, I wrote a poem about code.