Portfolio

I'm now the Deputy Director of Data Protection & Privacy!

I've just launched Data Protection and privacy guides under open license! The guides are intended for Mercy Corps staff and partners but can be used and modified by anybody. They combine existing M...

Released open source courses for teaching data collection, management, and visualization in humanitarian response. Courses support remote teaching graduate level coursework using Python, JavaScript...

Lauched the "COMRADES" version of Ushahidi. Product includes: data pipeline integration with U.N. Humanitarian Data Exchange; data collection with Facebook messenger chatbot; and integrated machine...

Lead user research in Kenya to evaluate use of citizen reporting and mobile data collection during contested elections. Field work took place in Nairobi and included implementing system usability s...

Co-led user research in Nepal to define requirements for the COMRADES platform with stakeholders and decision-makers in Nepal who represented local communities affected by the 2015 Earthquake. Fiel...

Concluded community mapping project in Semarang, Indonesia. Outcomes included: • captured 1,248 citizen reports to improve government response; • received more than 10,000 unique pages views across...

Launched community mapping project in Semarang, Indonesia. Field work included training 13 community members in the use of #OpenStreetMap and digitizing more than 50 thousand structures in our firs...

Presented USAID's first use of crowdsourcing project at the International Conference of Crisis Mappers! See the talk here.

Lead first use of crowdsourcing to create open data from unstructured text. Co-directed cloud-based solution for online workflow and data validation. See full report here.