Experience

Goodly Labs

• United States
• Research Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Founder, President, and Chief Scientist

  • Jun 2015 - Present

  Oakland, CA Goodly Labs creates research and technology engaging the public to find common ground and directly improve society through mass collaboration. We are registered in the state of California as a 501(c)3 and accept tax deductible donations.



Public Editor

• United States
• Technology, Information and Media

• Founder & Director

  • Jan 2014 - Present

  Berkeley, CA Public Editor organizes the careful efforts of thousands of people to specifically label misinformation in the daily news. Learn more at publiceditor.io



TagWorks

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting

• Founder and CEO

  • Dec 2017 - Present

  Oakland, CA TagWorks enables researchers, archivists and enterprises to know the most about any set of documents. It is especially valuable for large content analysis projects or the production of training sets guiding supervised ML to create natural language AI.



Demo Watch

• Founder & Principal Investigator

  • Feb 2012 - Present

  University of California, Berkeley Demo Watch has amassed together the largest, most comprehensive, and richly annotated database of police and protester interactions. Analyses of this database will explain how, why, and under what circumstances different cities respond differently to protest movements.



Text Thresher

• Inventor, Team Lead

  • May 2014 - Present

  Oakland, CA Created software enabling researcher-directed crowd annotation of text. Learn more at textthresher.org



University of California, Berkeley

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Sociologist, Lecturer

  • Sep 2011 - Present

  TEACHING Sociological Methods and Analysis Classical and Contemporary Sociological Theory Natural Language Processing Deviance and Social Control



Berkeley Institute for Data Science

• United States
• Technology, Information and Media

• Data Scientist

  • Jul 2014 - Apr 2018

  Berkeley Leading data science projects, Incubating Goodly Labs



D-Lab, Berkeley

• United States
• Research Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Program Director, Instructor, Consultant, Chief Evangelist

  • Aug 2013 - Jan 2016

  UC_Berkeley Text Analysis workshop instruction, research design and management consulting, general lab operations, curriculum development, instructor recruiting, course facilitation, event emcee-ing, equity and inclusion work, grant writing.



The Breakthrough Institute

• United States
• Think Tanks
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director, National Security and Counterterrorism Policy

  • Oct 2009 - Jan 2012

  Managed $400,000 grant and reporting requirements. Researched and wrote two prominent reports: "Counterterrorism Since 9/11" and "Planes, Trains, and Car Bombs." Published op-ed and feature pieces in Roll Call and The Atlantic. Briefed New York and DC NGOs and Capitol Hill Developed brand, website, and blog: thescienceofsecurity.org



American Environics

• United States
• Engineering Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Researcher

  • Jul 2008 - Jul 2009

  Survey design, data analysis, and authoring on topics such as immigration, torture, privacy, health care, and economic policy.



Electoral Politics

• India
• Political Organizations

• Campaign Management

  • 2003 - 2004

  I ran two successful electoral campaigns. I now make social change through more impactful means.