About Me
I am a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley studying worker voice and technology and a researcher at the Berkeley AI Research Lab, Responsible & Equitable AI Initiative. 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 (UC Berkeley). My research has been featured in The Guardian, NPR, NBC News, WIRED, MIT Tech Review, TIME, the LA Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, SF Weekly, The Hill, and VICE.
I use historical archival data, regression analysis, and LLMs to examine how workplaces are changing and evolving. I am particularly interested in understanding how technology is changing the balance between shareholder and stakeholder capitalism. In 2019, I co-founded the non-profit Collective Action in Tech, named by Fast Company as one of “15 worker groups taking on the tech world”. In 2025, I co-founded Quennar, a start-up that builds cultural intelligence layers for LLMs and AI agents and was a recent finalist in the Pear VC Competition.
My dissertation studies how workers have spoken up about technological change in U.S. workplaces from the 1960s to the present-day. I outline the historical scale and scope of workplace protest in the U.S. before examining how workers have used their voice to both aid and impede the integration of technologies into the workplace. I examine recent protests around AI workplace technologies and determine who will be most impacted by changes in algorithmic labor and management. In my spare time, I read long novels (current project: Ulysses by James Joyce), visit art museums, and open water swim.
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—2025 (expected)
M.A. in Sociology
Columbia University
2017—2018
A.B. in Social Studies cum laude
Harvard College
2009—2014