Community building

Bridging Research and Practice

• Co-founder, Data for Good Roundtables (2025– )
  A safe and brave space where academics and practitioners come together to discuss using data for good.

Collaborators, Project Partners, and Lab Affiliations

I maintain an active network of collaborators and project partner organizations, and work closely with several research labs across institutions:

• P3 Lab, Johns Hopkins SNF Agora Institute
  (Director: Hahrie Han)
  
• Civic Power Lab, Harvard Kennedy School
  (Director: Liz McKenna)
  
• Better Government Lab, Georgetown McCourt & Michigan Ford School
  (Co-directors: Donald Moynihan, Pamela Herd, Sebastian Jilke)
  
• REPS Lab, UCLA
  (Director: Efrén Pérez)

Field-Building in Computational Social Science

• Advisory Council Member, Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (SICSS)
  
• Co-organizer, SICSS Bay Area (2020)
  Co-hosted by UC Berkeley and Stanford
  
• Co-organizer, SICSS Korea (2022)
  Co-hosted by KAIST and KDI School

Community Engagement & Mentorship

• Panelist on Civic Tech
  Public Management Research Conference (PMRC), University of Washington, 2024

• Panelist on Data Science Career Paths
  Stanford University, 2024
  UC Berkeley, 2023
  International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2), 2024

Civic tech pre-conference at the 2024 PMRC, Daniel J. Evans School of Public Policy and Governance, University of Washington. Photo credit: Donald Moynihan