I think designers need to join the ranks of researchers, scientists, and politicians actively working to affect change in areas like education, poverty, healthcare, and sustainability.

I'm interested in understanding human behavior - including the social and emotional factors that cause people to act the way they do - in order to develop technologies and solutions that help people make better decisions and lead healthier lives. More on my research interests.

I am currently pursuing a Master's of Design at the Institute of Design, and will graduate in Spring 2010. Prior to attending graduate school, I worked at Google as a User Experience Designer, focusing primarily on search, personalization, and developer projects.

I hold a Bachelor of Science in Comparative Media Studies from MIT (2006), an inter-disciplinary program that included courses in Anthropology, Computer Science, Media Theory, and Digital Video.

While at MIT I worked in the MIT Media Lab as an undergraduate researcher (UROP) on two projects: in John Maeda's Physical Language Workshop I developed a web-based design tool for the Openstudio experiment. As part of the Creativity and Learning Project I helped to conduct, compile, and edit dozens of hours of video ethnography and interviews, exploring the use of collaborative tools in William Mitchell's Smart Cities workshop.