I hold a doctorate in City and Regional Planning from UC Berkeley, with concentrations in transportation infrastructure, urban governance, and cybersecurity. My academic foundation began at MIT, where I studied Civil Engineering with a concentration in Urban Studies and Planning.
Ultimately, I love the process of transformation and I've always been curious about sociotechnical systems, how they change, and the institutions that initiate and manage that change. Practically, I'm interested in GRC and institutional capacity building.
Download CV →Technology often promises novelty. But it's deployed in a deeply storied landscape of relationships and past ambitions that surface each time a new initiative gains traction. Photography taught me to see that landscape before I had the language to describe it.
Taking pictures is an important practice for me — not just as a creative outlet, but as a discipline of visual documentation. Creating a reference archive through the act of recording constantly evolving urban landscapes has trained me to explore the layered context in which past and present visions are developed and realized.
I am based in the San Francisco Bay Area.