The hype around “web3” has led to a revisionist history of what “web2” was and in this rewriting of history, web3 tells a convenient myth about decentralization. Here’s why it matters. ...
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The scars of our collective trauma become more visible and more permanent as we enter Year Three of the COVID-19 pandemic. Every failure in leadership and governance and policy abrades what remaining protective shell we have guarding our hope. What we lose in the trauma, and what we can learn, as someone living it for years before. ...
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I am an advisory board member of the Advancing Data Justice project, a collaboration between the Alan Turing Institute, the Global Partnership on AI (GPAI), and individuals and communities across the globe.
Youth Equity and Sexuality Lab
I advise the Youth Equity and Sexuality Lab at Suffolk University, a research lab focused on promoting positive adolescent and young adult sexuality development; preventing sexual violence; and fighting fascism, cis-hetero-patriarchy, and white supremacy.
A study of the daily lives of violent far-right actors using court records to peer inside their living spaces.
A people’s history of the removal of statues honoring racists, slave owners, and colonizers, largely during the Uprising in the Summer of 2020 following the murder of George Floyd.
I am an advisory board member of The Prosecution Project, a data-driven project studying the patterns of prosecution of extremism, terrorism, and political violence.
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— key technologies —
python
Comfortable with many architectures and frameworks.
CI/CD
Can build advanced automated workflows for multiple contexts.
MATLAB
SQL
Capable of building complex and efficient analytical queries.
Jupyter
Can operate locally and in cloud environments. Familiar with JupyterHub and advanced operations and workflows.
git
PostgreSQL
Can optimize and operate for complex workloads.
Docker
Can efficiently build images.
AWS Redshift
Apache Airflow
Can build complex dags and optimize workflows, familiar with metadata model.
Azure
I can set up most services with IaC and understand the basic concepts to a practical degree.
AZ-900 Certificate 2021
neo4j
Familiar with basic operations, data models, and Cypher syntax.
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— languages —
English
American, Mother Tongue
Deutsch
Can engage in basic daily conversations.
B1 Zertifikat 2021 (Goethe Institut)
Español
Lapsed
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