Associate Professor Information Science College of Media, Communication and Information University of Colorado Boulder
I study how identity is designed, represented, and experienced through technology. My mission is to make technology worthy of the complexity of our human lives. Over the past decade I have studied our “digital afterlives” to improve the management of accounts and data after we die and to better support those we leave behind.
A friend once generously summed me up by saying, “In a single conversation you might be talking about the latest software library but turn around and explain it with some philosopher like Foucault.” That is what you get when you blend academic and industry experience across technology, design, the social sciences, and critical theory.