About Me.
I'm a student with a burning curiosity about why we do what we do. Tackling this question has led me from humanities to CS to social science to somewhere in between, using the tools of many trades to answer universal questions.
Contact
For any sort of inquiry or question, shoot an email! I love to chat about all things tech ethics, current events, and public affairs – if you wanna talk hit me up :)
Get to know me
I'm passionate about a lot of things, from cars to neuroscience to comic books and cooking. If you want some random stuff, this is the cover to a project I did about Angels in America. This is a link to an online cookbook I compiled for my family with contributions from my relatives and some original recipes. This poster is the first poll I ever fielded – a fifth grade science fair project examining the gender bias of the students at my school versus the general population. And if you want to know me better, my writing is a great place to go!
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In the last year, I've written articles that have been viewed millions of times and been picked up by major media including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and other prominent papers. I've also written guest essays, including one for The New York Times, and appeared on national TV including CNN, MSNBC, PBS NewsHour, Good Morning America, and more.
My rigorously-sourced investigations have covered a number of topics. I've written about "Stanford's War on Fun" — the bureaucratic crackdown that has safety advocates, club leaders, and everyday students concerned. I've broken stories about a legendary genentics professor and a $30m fraud judgment Stanford pretended it had never heard of despite participating in the case. I've investigated a man who lived in dorms for a year, pretending to be a student and harassing several women all while Stanford knew about his presence and failed to warn residents. I've discovered missing Title IX data — and shifting excuses about where it went — and holes in Stanford's safety protocols. And so much more.
My most consequential, and most time-suckingly intense work, has been a series of investigative pieces about Stanford's now-former-president Marc Tessier-Lavigne, a billionaire neuroscientist. I exposed falsified data in his research and reported on his failures to correct the scientific record over a period of two decades. He resigned as a consequence. For that series of investigative pieces, which included a close look at studies that once claimed to have found the cause and a potential cure for Alzheimer's disease, I became the youngest ever recipient of one of journalism's highest prizes, the George Polk Award. (Past recipients include Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, Walter Cronkite, James Baldwin, and many other distinguished jouranlists.)
I'm not just a reporter, though. I've done election disinformation research; analyzed QAnon rhetoric and its similarity to tweets by Republican Congressmen; conducted national polling; helped to assemble one of the largest hackathons in the world, TreeHacks; helped teach classes on ethical Computer Science; and taken course material in everything from philosophy to systems engineering to Greek art history.
Ultimately, I've been extraordinarily lucky with the opportunities I've had and I hope I've done some cool things with them. Feel free to browse this website to take a look at some of my projects and reach out if you want to connect!
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