I identify as a phenomenologist - someone who loves studying the lived experience. As a former nonprofit director skilled in project management, communications, and inclusive community engagement, I've turned my focus to support marginalized individuals by using research as advocacy.

My research questions involve exploring activism and organizing within organizational settings, including online communities and the digitized society. How do social movements impact business and organizations? How do employees feel empowered to demonstrate activism within their organizations? How is technology used by employees and workers to conduct resistance against the organization? How do management decisions affect systemic racism and structural inequality both internal to their organization and external within society more broadly? How should we rethink human resources to be of better service to employees within organizations?

My work is located at the intersection of organizational theory and sociological methods, in which I utilize qualitative and ethnographic approaches bolstered by quantitative analysis.

My current and past projects:

• Building a taxonomy and case study analysis of decentralized technological governance systems;

• Analyzing the organizing efforts and algorithmic activism within the gig economy;

• Examine the effects of AI within online communities;

• Exploring the effects of indigenous representations on corporate boards;

• Developing metrics and evaluations for increasing vaccinations across 10 CDC-funded communities;

• Completing historical analysis of a Black-formed and led community-based organization in Philadelphia (see chapter 12!)

My research training:

• Qualitative Semi-Structured Interviews

• Atlas.ti Qualitative Coding

• Dedoose Qualitative Coding

• Ethnographic Methods

• R basics and fundamentals

• Python basics and fundamentals (data cleaning & scraping)

• SQL basics (data management)