Biography

I've worked in art and technology for more than 25 years. Since 2018, I've embraced digital humanities as a lens to examine assumptions about generative AI in policy, pedagogy, and design. My research frames generative AI as digital humanities in reverse. Where archivists grapple with organizing and preserving cultural memory, generative AI synthesizes generalities to create plausible representations of that memory. This raises fascinating questions about cultural meaning. Yet, we lack frameworks to articulate these questions, challenge these representations, or examine the practices that produce them. At Cambridge, my research will bridge archival approaches, media studies, and responsible data-training practices to produce these frameworks. Being named a Gates Scholar is an immense honor. As the first in my family to attend university, I earned degrees in New Media and Journalism from the University of Maine. I hold an MSc in Media and Communications from the London School of Economics, and in Applied Cybernetics from the Australian National University. I've been a Research Fellow at the Flickr Foundation, a Reporting Fellow at Tech Policy Press, and the Emerging Technology Research Advisor for the Siegel Family Endowment.

Previous Education

London School of Economics & Political Science (Un Media and Communications
Australian National University Applied Cybernetics
Keene State College Undeclared