About Me

 

I am a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley with a Designated Emphasis in the Management of Organizations from Haas Business School and a researcher at the Berkeley AI Research Lab, Responsible AI Initiative. I study how workplaces adapt to new technologies using LLMs, regression analysis, archival data, and interviews. Previously, I was a Dissertation Scholar at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, a Digital Ethics & Governance Fellow at the Jain Family Institute, and a Special Project Fellow at the Center for Technology, Society, & Policy.

My dissertation studies how U.S. workers have reacted to technological change from the 1960s to the present-day. I outline the historical scale and scope of employee activism in the U.S. before examining how workers have both aided and impeded the integration of technologies into the workplace and what factors contribute to successful integration. I examine recent protests around AI technologies in the workplace and determine who will be most impacted by changes in algorithmic labor and management. In 2023, I was awarded the MIT Open Data Prize for contributions to publicly accessible data.

In addition to my academic research, I enjoy public outreach and engagement. My research has been featured in NPR, NBC News, WIRED, MIT Tech Review, TIME, the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Business Insider among others and I have written op-eds for Tech Policy Press and The Guardian. Prior to my PhD, I worked in finance at Bernstein Research and journalism at Bloomberg. In my spare time, I enjoy reading long novels (current project: Ulysses by James Joyce), visiting art museums, and long-distance running on hiking trails all over the Bay Area.

Degrees

Ph.D. in Sociology

University of California, Berkeley

Designated Emphasis in Management of Organizations, Haas School of Business

Certificate in Applied Data Science, School of Information

2018—2026 (expected)

M.A. in Sociology

Columbia University

2017—2018

A.B. in Social Studies cum laude

Harvard College

2009—2014