projects
I have been working as a product manager focused on accessibility since 2020, currently at Slack.
- Interview: Product Science Podcast on accessibility; 2023
rabble rousing 🍄
- James Nguyễn, Open Glossary at Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, contributor (reflection on Letters for Black Lives); 2023
- Bed-Stuy Strong (neighborhood mutual aid network), organizer; 2020
- Proudest of writing this documentation about BSS's tech and social infrastructure
- Last Mile (DIY effort to distribute PPE to healthcare workers in NYC), organizer; 2020
- Letters for Black Lives (massively multiplayer persuasion and translation project), accidental instigator and organizer; 2016
- Interviews: NPR Code Switch, Reappropriate
- ExtrACT (digital tools to empower communities impacted by fracking), project manager; 2009-2011
- Documented by the project's co-founder Sara Wylie in her book Fractivism
memewatching 🦉
- Chaoyang Trap House, occasional contributor but mostly just like a doting force ghost; 2021-2022
- Writing: Bullet Time for Logic(s); 2019
- Podcast: Flash Forward on wearing masks as fashion 🔮; 2019
- Magpie Digest (writing about Chinese internet culture), co-creator and writer; 2018
- Talk: Convenient Friction @ Interaction 17; 2017
- Podcast: Radii on researching Chinese subculture; 2017
- Writing: A Field Guide to China's Most Indispensable Meme for Motherboard; 2016
- Multi Entry (a multimodal zine about contemporary Chinese subculture); 2015
- Writing: China loves the lingo of games for BoingBoing Offworld; 2015
- Interview: Journal of Visual Culture on ROFLCon with Tim Hwang; 2014
- Interview: WBUR on ROFLCon; 2012
- ROFLCon (internet culture conference/convention), co-founder and organizer; 2008, 2010, 2012
enabling 🪸
- Orbital 1k, co-taught with Gary Chou; 2015
- Entrepreneurial Design, co-taught with Gary Chou at the School of Visual Arts' Interaction Design MFA program; 2014-2018
- BAHFest (misinformation but like, funny), producer; 2013
- Talk: It's Dangerous to Go Alone @ XOXO, 2013
- Interview: The Setup on my setup; 2013
- Awesome Summit (gathering of Awesome Foundation trustees and other people experimenting in philanthropy), lead organizer; 2012, 2013
- Interview: PAPER Magazine on Awesome Foundation; 2012
- Institute of Higher Awesome Studies (501c3 backend for the Awesome Foundation), co-founder and director; 2011
misc 👽
- Zine: Lao Gan Magazine with Kate Ray and many other friends; 2018
- Writing: Spaghetti with Fish Eggs for TASTE; 2017
- Writing: for Cleaver Quarterly; 2016
- anigif with Maxi Boch; 2010-2013
- Global Frequency on WMBR with a colorful cast of characters; 2010-2011