My educational background is in media, technology, and data with a research focus in digital media technology, data activism, LGBTQIA+ queer suicide prevention, and pedagogy.
Education
2023 – Present
M.S. Data Analysis and Visualization with Advanced Certificate in Interactive Technology and Pedagogy
The Graduate Center, City University of New York
2019 – 2021
M.A. Media, Culture, and Communication
New York University
Honors: Master in Residence at Weber Shandwick, Outstanding Service to the Department Award
2015 – 2019
B.S. Media, Culture, and Communication with Minors in Web Applications & Programming and Business of Entertainment, Media, & Technology
New York University
Honors: Summa Cum Laude, Departmental Banner Bearer, Dean’s List (2015 – 2019), Departmental Honors Program
Teaching
Digital Media: Theory + Practice
New York University, Department of Media, Culture, and Communication
This course offers students a foundational understanding of the technological building blocks that make up digital media & culture, and the ways they come together to shape myriad facets of life. Students will acquire a working knowledge of the key concepts behind coding, and survey the contours of digital media architecture, familiarizing themselves with algorithms, databases, hardware, and similar key components. These technological frameworks will be examined as the basic grammar of digital media & related to theories of identity, privacy, policy, and other pertinent themes. Throughout this course, students will select an ecology to research and engage with using critical digital media skills. The ecology topic must be approved by the instructor in writing and be concerned with a community of being harmed or under ongoing threat of harm in a social, economic, or political context.
New Media Research Studio
New York University, Department of Media, Culture, and Communication
New Media Research Studio is project-based, research-intensive course that explores emerging practices and trends in new media with particular emphasis on digital platforms and how they intersect with data privacy today. Students engage in a semester-long participatory research project using the WordPress platform, Adobe Audition, and Adobe Premiere Pro.
Creative Coding
New York University, Department of Media, Culture, and Communication
“Creative Coding” is a practice-based course designed to teach basic programming skills in the context of critical & cultural media studies & the digital humanities. The course requires no prior programming experience, simply a willingness to explore code at a more technical level with the aim of using computation as an expressive, analytical, critical & visualizing medium. Students will learn basic coding techniques such as variables, loops, graphics, & networking, all within a larger conversation on the social, cultural, & historical nature of code & coding practices.
Methods in Media Studies
New York University, Department of Media, Culture, and Communication
This course introduces students to the methods of analyzing the content, structure, production, and context of media in society. Students learn the basic approaches of textual analysis, political economy, history, and ethnography, developing a familiarity with media criticism and the concepts associated with these approaches. As they adopt, adapt, and employ these frameworks in their own analyses of mediated communication, students will also build media-specific projects using image-editing, visualization, and web-based archival technologies.
Research Projects
Why the Telephone: LGBTQ+ Youth Suicide Prevention in the United States
New York University
Explore how different forms of media technology are used for suicide prevention of LGBTQ+ youth
in the U.S. and engage in archival analysis of how technological structures intersect with the cultural and socio-economic systems surrounding LGBTQ+ youth suicide (graduate thesis).
LGBTQ+ Youth, Suicide, and Mental Health in the Social Media Age
New York University
Investigated how organizations use digital media to make wellness resources accessible on the Internet to respond to the mental health issues of LGBTQ+ youths (undergraduate thesis).