I get a kick out of untangling sociotechnical systems. I founded Untangled, a newsletter and podcast about our sociotechnical world, and how to change it. I co-founded The Facilitation Leadership Lab, which helps leaders facilitate organizational change. I coach and advise mission-driven CEOs, Executive Directors, and senior leaders to live more impactful and freer lives. I lead the Public Technology Leadership Collaborative at Data & Society, a peer-learning collective of scholars, researchers, and government leaders working to ensure data and technology serve the public interest. And I'm a Non-Resident Fellow with the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab.

Before all that, I led the Disinformation Action Lab at Data & Society, which won the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public inaugural Award for Excellence for its multi-stakeholder work on the 2020 Census. Once upon a time, I co-founded and ultimately led the Center for Digital Development at the U.S. Agency for International Development. I helped grow the team from 2 to 55, developed our strategy, and designed multi-stakeholder alliances like the Digital Impact Alliance.

I’m a graduate of the University of Washington (Go Huskies!) and the Harvard Kennedy School, I've received training on complex systems from The Sante Fe Institute and The Cynefin Company, and sometimes I teach at George Washington University. I’m a Seattleite by disposition living in Los Angeles, an obnoxiously proud uncle, and a new pug dad.

This is a personal project, all thoughts and opinions are my own and don’t reflect the institutional positions of Data & Society.

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