Twitter was my social media platform of choice. Where else could I engage with scholars like Tressie McMillan Cottom, sex workers turned therapists like Raquel Savage, thoughtful technologists like Ian Coldwater within seconds of each other? I had curated my timeline to include this diverse set of thinkers. Then Elon
A Revolutionary Technologist started as a response to the prompt of what would happen if we built technology from the ethos of bell hooks' "All About Love: New Visions." To radically re-imagine technology as part of an act of love or “the will to extend one’s
My version of Dale Carnegie’s “How to make friends and Influence People”
Before we can talk about deeper topics like grief, we have to hold space for the weather.
My first “adult” job was as a product manager for a startup that didn’t have a product. The founder raised 24 million dollars by telling the story of using big data to solve problems in travel. The business case was supposedly self-evident because travel spending was in the trillions
“Managing” is how we survive in a world where cruelty is the point.
I arrived at the US Senate as a 27 year-old ready to make a mark. It was the first time I had worked in a centuries old institution. Emboldened by a steady diet of “girlboss” ideology, I wanted to bring tech literacy to Congress. But the Senate operated in years
The fall started with the death of a dear friend and ended with my father’s death. Needless to say, I was drowning in sadness. I dissociated from immense grief by burying myself deeper into the TikTok algorithms. I disengaged from the joys of my life like ceramics and exercise.
“Everything Worthwhile Is Done With Other People” - Mariame Kaba
“Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.” - bell hooks
“One of the best guides to how to be self-loving is to give ourselves the love we are often dreaming about receiving from others” - bell hooks
To bastardize a Nikki Giovanni quote, “I’m 33 years old, a revolutionary technologist. I love.”