About

In a world of silos and division, my research supports collaborative design across cultural, organizational, and knowledge boundaries; expands conceptions of design expertise; and critically examines disparities in who is benefited or burdened by engineered products, systems, and spaces. Ultimately, this work joins others in the collective goal of more just and sustainable futures. 

Before doing a PhD at Stanford, I worked in hardware product development as a R&D engineer, complex systems researcher, co-developer of a clean water organization, and design instructor at MIT D-Lab. While at MIT, I spent several months each year living and working in Zambia with incredible Zambian innovators.

I am a designer, maker, and teacher at heart and have developed and taught courses in engineering design, manufacturing, organization studies, and planetary health and helped organized co-design summits in the Brazil, Ghana, Zambia, and the United States. I am committed to furthering my own critical consciousness and co-constructing learning environments that celebrate identity and difference.