I am a Sociologist who works in Human-Computer Interaction spaces. This is a fancy way of saying that I am both a social and technological researcher or that I exist as a researcher of socio-technical. That said, as a researcher of the socio-technical, it is sometimes difficult to describe exactly what I do for a living or as an academic as I tend to exist between a number of disciplinary spaces.

Generally, I study disaster contexts, how folks train for disaster contexts, and the gap between how technology works and how technology isn’t designed for a world that itself needs to be able-bodied.

I am often stuck between social and technical concerns. I can write code, work with hardware, and other technical objects; however, I am equally capable in the social life of those technical objects, how technology influences and is influenced by society, and other types of issues that keep us uncomfortable and saying things like, “This isn’t intuitive” or “Do your research.”