About
I am a software developer and artist. I build technology with community organizers and use art-therapy for healing. I draw on the Design Justice Principles and an expansive definition of technology. I have a studio in so-called Los Angeles where I experiment with:
- 🧙♀️ Ancestral technology retrieval
- ❤️🩹 Disability, trauma healing, and anti-surveillance technology
- 🔊 Sound interface design for computers and electronics
- ✨ Speculative web software, DIY internet alternatives, and experimental hardware design
- 🎹 Software synthesizers and Jewish noise music
- 🤡 Pidgin language technology and mischievous yiddish dance
- 📷 Studio portrait photography
- 🤲 Ceramics sculpture
- 📚 Resistance print-making and zine-making
I am a member of the Design Justice steering committee and an advisor for the Processing Foundation. You can see some of my work and contributions in Surrogate by Lauren Lee McCarthy (2024), Feminist Designer by Alison Place (2023), and the Cyberfeminism Index by Mindy Seu (2023).
From 2009 to 2024, I ran an inclusive technology company called Bocoup. In 2024, a group of employees created the Bocoup Worker Collective and took over leadership (read more about that process). From 2016 to 2017, I also ran a tech-criticism focused gallery called OPEN.
Current projects
- Community mesh networking: Community visioning for local radio based mesh networks in Detroit and Los Angeles with my collaborator Alija Blackwell.
- Stop LAPD Spying: Various community technology projects with the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition to support the organization's campaigns to abolish police surveillance.
- Your Data Power: Data access tools for rideshare drivers that use California privacy laws to get data from ride share companies.
- The Village Cares: Software development and developer mentorship for this community-after-school-program fundraising platform.
- Lecture Performance Directory: Group lecture performance archiving tool development with Mindy Seu.
- Wikipedia editing: Wikipedia articles about people who don’t have Wikipedia pages for structural reasons. Currently writing about the Jewish modern dancer Judith Berg and previously wrote about computer scientist Alice Hartley.
Past projects
- Privacy Stack: Open source boilerplate for privacy-centric web apps available at privacystack.bocoup.com.
- Deploy: DIY deployment workflow for full stack JavaScript apps available on github at bocoup/deploy.
- Saliva Series Software: A speculative consent system for the saliva exchange performances.
- Wireframes: A design tool for blind designers that I built with two blind designers. Available at wireframes.bocoup.com
- Robert’s App: Communication software for non-speaking autistic kids.
- Consentful Tech: Program planning and the speculative design of consent-based flows like reversible web forms for the Consentful Tech Project.
- Consumer Reports: Onboarding experience and consent modeling for Consumer Reports' California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA) data rights tool.
- Hot Labor Summer: Tracked the labor movement and worker organizing campaigns on hotlaborsummer.com with collaborators Siena Chiang and Jane Chung.
- Web interoperability strategy: Interoperability roadmap for the Firefox product team and a Web Standards roadmap for geospatial maps for the Canadian National Resources agency.
- Platform testing strategy: Ran strategy and operations for Bocoup's contributions to four testing programs over the course of the 2010s, including: Ringmark, Test262, Web Platform Tests project, and ARIA-AT.
- Web platform documentation: Wrote documentation for and facilitated on-ramps to web development and web platform contribution, including: api.jquery.org, MDN, W3C Inclusive track for newcomers, and the Web Platform Contribution Guide.
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Contact
If you don't already have my email or phone number, you can email me or schedule a call with me.