Updates
March 2023
Speaking with Professor Samuel Mann from Otago Polytechnic (NZ) on the Blowing Bubbles podcast about life and research post Covid!
Speaking with Kyros.ai about it means to do computer science research pre college
Jan 2023
Our paper Unmaking as Emancipation: Lessons and Reflections from Luddism was accepted to CHI’23
Our Proposal Exploring Gaps and Requirements to Support more Just Engagement with Energy Modelling for Building Retrofits wins a CPE grant
Our TOCHI special issue CFP on Unmaking & HCI: Techniques, Technologies, Materials, and Philosophies Beyond Making is out: https://dl.acm.org/journal/tochi/unmaking
July 2022
Stared as a postdoc at the Toronto Climate Observatory, University of Toronto
Dec 2021
Our paper “(Unmaking) as Agonism: Using Participatory Design with Youth to Surface Difference in an Urban Context” was accepted to CHI ’22!
Our workshop “Unmaking@CHI: Concretizing the Material and Epistemological Practices of Unmaking in HCI” was accepted to CHI ’22!
July 2021
Our paper “Smart & Sustainable: Rethinking what a Smart Home is” appears in the book It’s not for you! It’s for the building following the Venice Architecture Biennale
June 2021
Representing Cornell Info Sci @ HCIC / Human Computer Interaction Consortium summer workshop: Building Alliances, Working with Difference: Toward Equity and Accessibility
May 2021
Giving Keynote Speech titled “Defying Difference By-Design” @ CHI 2021 Migration Workshop
April 2021
Invited to organize “Issues and Visions around Automated Decision Making: A Design Thinking Session” @ #BanTheScan Youth Forum, Office of NYC Public Advocate
March 2021
Giving an invited talk titled “Making at Case for Paper in Interaction Design” @ INFO6940: Craft@Large, Cornell Tech
January 2021
Passed my PhD candidacy exam!
December 2020
Short piece titled “On Destruction in Design” published in SIGCAS
November 2020
Giving a talk titled “Is Unmaking Design?” at the DLI, Cornell Tech. Recap posted here.
August 2020
Elected as the first Diversity and Inclusion rep for Info Sci PhDs @ Cornell Tech
July 2020
Presenting Hijabi, Proxies, and difference at the CHI Islamic HCI workshop
June 2020
August 2019
Won the Engaged Cornell Opportunity Grant for the proposal Demystifying Artifacts: Sharing Non-Hegemonic Cultural Practices of International Transfer Students from the Roosevelt Island Middle School
November 2017
Giving a talk titled “Curating the Use of Technology in Context-Sensitive Design” at TEDxUofT
September 2017
Giving a talk titled “Applying Field Lessons to Housing and Spatial History Capturing Closer to Home”. iSchool, University of Toronto
August 2017
Moved to NYC to start a PhD in InfoSci at Cornell Tech!
July 2017
Giving a talk titled “What non-technical interdisciplinary impact can you instigate with a computer science degree?” Sisters coding @Rangle
September 2016
Giving a talk titled “Facilitating Participatory Shelter Design and Construction in Camps Through ICT” at the University of New York Abu Dhabi, UAE
July 2016
Coming home with the best paper award AND audience popularity award from ICT4S!
August 2016
Giving a talk titled “Plasticity of Shelter in Forced Displacement Contexts” @ Yorkville University, Canada
January 2016
Giving a talk titled “Ameliorating Canada’s Role in Forced Displacement Relief via ICT-based Development Interventions” @ The ACM-W Canadian Celebration of Women in Computing Conference (CAN-CWiC), Ottawa, Canada, January 22-23, 2016.