May 2024
Professional Timeline
2024
2023/04/26 – I was awarded the Distinguished Leadership in Service Award from Cornell University’s Bowers College of Computing and Information Science.
2023/03 – (Re)submitted my article Time to Politicization to the Journal of Information Technology and Politics.
2023
2023/10/30 – University of California – San Diego Science Studies Colloquium. Presentation titled A Walk Down Dole Street: Disruption, Resistance, and Relations From Within the Academe.
2023/10/19-21 – The Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) Conference 2023 is in Philadelphia! Hope to see familiar faces as I will be presenting on day one.
2023/010/14 – At the ACM CSCW 2023 Workshop on Conceptualizing Indigeneity in Social Computing,I will be your closing keynote!
2023/06/30 – I will be presenting my poster at the International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA) Sunbelt 2023 conference in Portland, OR! Come by to poster #11 to see it!
2023/06 – At the ARC Equity in STEM Community Convening I was on a panel alongside Michael Simeone and J. Gold where we discussed Ensuring Equity in Big Data, Algorithms, and STEM Language.
2023/06/05 – I am back at Intel Labs for the summer! I will be working with Dawn Nafus and Chris Persaud on deepfake detection and real-world generative AI use cases.
2023/05/16 – And just like that, I am officially a PhD Candidate! After a grueling process and over 20,000 words written, I have passed my A-Exam and can now begin working on my dissertation.
2023/05/03 – My poem Revel was accepted for the Cornell University Queerinar, a celebration of LGBTQ+ Artists. A recording of my reading will be played at the Queerinar on May 3rd at 7:10PM ET!
2023/04/28 – Our Society for Studies of Social Science (4S) 2023 panel call is live! Essentially we are using this as an opportunity to send Kānaka Maoli and diasporic Hawaiian scholars on the mainland back home. Here is the full Twitter thread and the call.
2023/03/31 – I submitted a panel (which was accepted!) to the Society for the Social Study of Science (4S)! I will joined by the most incredible group of scholars: Marina Johnson-Zafiris, Beatrys Fernandes Rodrigues, and Os Keyes.The topic? Using the academe as a tool for wealth redistribution.
2023/03/02 – I was invited to Wellesley College to give a talk on my work accepted at ICA – Time to Politicization: The Emergence and Effects of Politics on Science YouTube videos. Thank you to for the thoughtful questions from a very engaged audience!
2023/02/28 – I submitted an extended abstract to the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) 2023! Co-authors are Marina Johnson-Zafiris and Margaret Foster. If accepted we will discuss the concept of “micro-cheating” and how tech facilitates and creates new spaces for relationship transgressions.
2023/01/29 – I was a guest, alongside the fabulous Federica Bologna, on the Research Journey Initiative Podcast! Be on the look in a month or so for the release. It was a fun and meaningful conversation, can’t wait for y’all to be able to hear it. Update: It’s live! Check out Ep7: Making the Most of Method – Internet Research for Social Impact.
2023/01/15 – I am emerging from a cave to announce that I have submitted two papers for publication! A first-author on the politicization of educational science YouTube videos (submitted to the International Conference on Web and Social Media ICWSM) and a second author on prosocial objections to hate speech and misinformation (submitted to ACM Computer Supported Cooperative Work – ACM CSCW). Yay! Now time to take a week of and sleep…
2023/01/11 – Excited to announce that my lead-author submission to the International Communication Association’s (ICA) 73rd Annual Conference was accepted! I will see y’all in Toronto come May!
2022
2022/11/01-06 – Live from Dublin, Ireland! I presented “Coming Out and Coming Up: Quantifying Queer Immaterial Labor” to a wonderful crowd at AoIR 2022 at the TU Dublin – Grangegorman campus.
2022/10/28 – Another day, another panel! I was a panelist on a departmental seminar on industry internships. I discussed application materials, the research I conducted, networking, navigating publishing, and work-life.
2022/10/07 – I co-presented a seminar titled “Big Data Meets Thick Description: Thinking Interpretively with Computational Data” with Chelsea Butkowski, a post-doc in the Center on Digital Culture & Society at UPenn. The presentation was housed within the Cornell Center for Social Sciences (CCSS) Qualitative and Interpretive Research Institute (QuIRI). The audience included faculty, staff, and PhD students. The goal was to think about applications of qualitative methods within digital spaces or with computationally derived data and/or mixed method work that includes computational and qualitative methodologies.
2022/09/28 – I was accepted as a mentee to the Google Computer Science Research Mentorship Program (CS-RMP). The program is described as “supports the pursuit of computing research for students from historically marginalized groups through career mentorship, peer-to-peer networking, and building awareness about pathways within the field.” I will be set in a pod with two other graduate students who will be mentored by a Google Senior Researcher to learn more about industry research, job market preparation, and professionalization.
2022/09/28 – I was a panelist discussing “Benevolent Allyship and the Role of Societal Norms.” The panel was a part of the Thrive-WiSE Mirco-Conference. I was joined by Sarah DiMuccio (Catalyst) and Hannah Eareckson (NYU).
2022/09/24 – The IS department at Cornell hosted a seminar on graduate fellowship applications (I was a panelist!). I primarily discussed my experience applying to (and winning) the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship, various diversity grants/fellowships, and non-profit research funding.
2022/09/20-24 – I attended the Grace Hopper Celebration in Orlando, FL! Thank you to everyone who stopped by the Cornell booth!
2022/09/17 – I became a mentor for the Cornell Multi-Cultural Academic Council (MAC)!
2022/07/21 – I was an invited lecturer for Communication & Technology 2450 at Cornell. The goal was to demystify the research design process. We began with de-tangling ill-understood terms like qualitative, quantitative, inductive, and deductive. Then, we co-created our research design from scratch. Beginning with a construct (polarization of youth), then selecting measures (using Instagram, we selected hashtags, profile descriptions, and follow relationships), and finally we decided to pick a network analysis to see how political lean was distributed among our sample. The final question was about complicating out contributions to knowledge. To whom do we serve and how do we present these findings? It was a fantastic experience!
2022/05/25 – I have received an Outstanding Service Award from the Information Science department in recognition of my work on the admissions committee! On the committee, I lead efforts to increase the diversity of student applicants, serving on a panel about student life for admitted students, and leading a Broadening Participation Lunch where I facilitated conversation about DEI at Cornell.
2022/05/09 – This morning I was notified that an extended abstract that I submitted with my dear colleague Ellie Homant was accepted at the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR)! This year’s theme is “Decolonizing the Internet” and our abstract is about the labor of queer YouTubers. See y’all in Dublin!
2022/05/02 – This was a particularly daunting year. I took on leadership roles in research, a Data Science Fellowship, and departmental service on top of the usual coursework for early stage PhD students. In October of 2021, I made the decision to apply to industry internships. I applied to ten calls and received two interviews with one offer! I am ecstatic to announce that I will be a Sociotechnical Intern at Intel Labs this summer!
This is my story on how I got there if you are curious!
2022/03/14 – The third and final entry in my API workshop series is officially complete! We spent the hour going from idea to research design. There was also a fair bit of debugging R (as there always is!). I spent a good chunk of last fall and the beginning of the spring creating this series and am very proud of the resource and its reception.
2022/03/07 – I served as a panelist for a discussion about academic and Ithaca life for admitted students to the Information Science PhD program at Cornell. I also lead a Broadening Participation Lunch where we heard from diversity, equity, and inclusion faculty and staff from both Ithaca and Tech campuses.
2022/02/21 – The second workshop in my series about APIs for social science research titled “Practical Applications of the Twitter API V2” was a success! Faculty, staff, and grad students were able to install a data scraping package in either R or Python and receive an in-depth tutorial on common queries to get real-world data. We talked through advanced searches and tailored examples to participants expertise.
2022/02/09 – I spent the last few months developing a series of workshops on the use of APIs for social science research. Today, I facilitated the first in the series titled “Why Use APIs for Social Science Research.” I introduce faculty, post-docs, and grad students to common applications of API-derived data, how they work, perform a live demo, and describe the package ecosystem for common platforms.
2022/02/09 – As part of my Data Science Fellowship through the Cornell Center for Social Sciences (CCSS), I wrote a “Love Letter to Data” for Love Your Data Week. Here is the post if you would like to read it!
2021
2021/11/05 – I submitted an extended abstract to International Communication Association (ICA) 2022. The submission is a research design proposal looking at prosocial norms and user defense strategies within live streaming chats.
2021/09/01 – I will begin my role as Admissions Representative for Cornell as a part of the Information Science Graduate Student Association (ISGSA). In this role, I will train graduate students on PhD application review and interviewing techniques, coordinate with IS faculty for selection, and co-develop Visit Days for accepted candidates.
2021/08/04 – This fall I will take on a part-time role as a data science consultant for the Cornell Center for Social Sciences (CCSS) at Cornell University.
2021/07/04 – I collaborated with Eitan Frachtenberg (Reed College) on a paper titled Worlds Apart: Technology, Remote Work, and Equity which has officially been published in this month’s issue of IEEE Computer! Here is the more extensive pre-print.
2021/06/21 – 07/02 – I attended the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (SICSS) at UCLA. SICSS is an intensive two-week long boot-camp in computational methods.
2020
2020/11/09 – I was a panelist on the My Journey to Graduate School panel through the First Generation and Low-Income Graduate Student Organization at Cornell University.
2020/07/29 – I presented a workshop on the National Science Foundation’s graduate research fellowship at Bucknell University.
2020/03/31 – I was awarded the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship.
2020/03/10 – Through the Diversity Programs in Engineering (DPE) at Cornell, I was awarded a Colman-Sloan Fellowship.
2020/02/10 – I will be attending Cornell University’s Information Science program as a PhD student!