Journalist. Researcher. Civic Technologist.

I investigate how narratives, algorithms, and emerging technologies shape civic life and public understanding. My work spans investigative reporting, documentary filmmaking, and computational research—often with a focus on suppressed histories, political rhetoric, and the evolving dynamics of misinformation. With a background in performance, I bring a critical lens to how rhetoric functions not only as content, but also as an embodied and affective practice—particularly in the spread of misinformation and public persuasion.

As a Lede Fellow at Columbia Journalism School, I’m exploring how 19th-century anti-political discourse reverberates through today’s media and digital platforms.

I hold an MFA in Acting from The Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University and a BA in Sociology and Anthropology from Wells College, with minors in French and Africana Studies.

You can find my code, data projects, and technical experiments on GitHub.

Current Projects

• The Radical Experiment of Haiti (Documentary-in-progress)
  A feature-length documentary I’m directing, uncovering my ancestor’s radical attempt to build democracy in Haiti, revealing how the U.S. once rejected its own ideals abroad, and why that warning matters more than ever today.

• Performance, Politics, and Misinformation (Research through the Lede Program)
  A data-driven inquiry into how political rhetoric functions as performance—and how emerging technologies like natural language processing can illuminate the ways misinformation spreads across time, media, and messaging.