I study the relationship between humans and technology, complicating how we think about digital platforms and artificial intelligence (AI). With groundings in critical theory and qualitative participatory methods, I study how technologies impact human interaction and how humans use, navigate, and resist technologies to survive and thrive. I aim to create connective tissue between research (conceptual, theoretical, and empirical) and spaces of practice and everyday life. Presently, I am a Joint Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Information and the School of Social Work, and Faculty Affiliate in the Digital Studies Institute at the University of Michigan. I am also an AI Fellow at the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning at Harvard University and I co-lead the Critical Race and Intersectional Technology (CRIT) Collective—an intergenerational, creative, and intellectual community of care.

I currently live in Cambridge, Massachusetts where I serve as a Resident Tutor in Adams House at Harvard with my wife, Kemeyawi, and our Italian Greyhound, Karl Marx. I am also an amateur sneakerhead who loves reading, coffee (faro café), spicy food and hot sauce, long walks (usually with Karl), and laughing at home with the family.