As a civil society research leader, she has directed mixed-methods research into online hate, harassment, and disinformation and advocated with tech companies and lawmakers for evidence-based policy changes. Her scholarly and advocacy research examines tech practices in urban placemaking, from post-unification Berlin to gentrifying Brooklyn. She is the author of Mobile City: Emerging Media, Space, and Sociality in Contemporary Berlin (Cornell 2024), an ethnography of digital mobility among Berlin’s early 2000s creative class, along with advocacy reports, policy white papers, peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, and essays in venues like Tech Policy Press and Fast Company. Her reports have been covered by The New York Times, The Washington Post, Politico, and more. She holds a master’s degree from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from UC Irvine.