I focus on democratic innovation, social choice, and civic technology, with a particular interest in citizens’ assemblies and preference aggregation.
Currently, I’m a pre-doctoral fellow at the Data & Democracy Initiative at the University of Chicago’s Data Science Institute and a non-resident fellow at the Cornell Brooks Center on Global Democracy.
Hosted by People Powered, FIDE - North America and Global Citizens’ Assembly Network, this conversation brought together researchers, practitioners, and a participant from Lexington, Kentucky’s first ever citizens’ assembly.
With Metagov's Open Facilitation Library, we're researching how to help self-reflection and thoughtful argumentation in digital deliberation settings.
We are developing and testing a new network-based metric to measure racial segregation and compare its performance to well-established metrics such as the dissimilarity index and Moran’s I.