Writing

The Autodesk Foundation

Ghostwriting, co-writing and editing

Scaling safe housing: Build Change is harnessing the power of Autodesk software to retrofit and fortify homes for 2 million people in the earthquake-prone city of Bogotá, Colombia.

Innovating low-cost solutions for farmers in India: A team of Autodesk engineers, designers, and training partners worked with Indian start-up Kheyti to lower costs and installation times for its signature “Greenhouse-in-a-Box” product, laying a strong foundation to deliver the solution at scale.

Advancing solar solutions: Autodesk facilitated software donations, volunteer efforts, and technical expertise enabling SolarBuddy to scale solar lighting solutions worldwide, while creating awareness around energy poverty.

Our investment in Closed Loop Partners: Ushering in the circular economy.

Connecting community, culture, and creativity: How one employee’s leadership is building intergenerational bonds in San Francisco’s Japanese American community.

Democracy Fund’s Digital Democracy Initiative

Co-writing and editing with Associate Director Paul Waters

The DDI Systems Map: how digital tools and technologies have transformed our public square

It’s Time for an Internet that Supports our Democracy: Platform companies like Facebook, Twitter and Google are not accountable to the public. It doesn’t have to be like this.

Fighting for an Internet that is Safe for All: The harassment of people of color and women on platforms owned by Facebook, Google, and Twitter illustrates larger problems that should concern us all.

The Growing Movement for Platform Accountability: We commissioned an independent report to gain an in-depth understanding of the policy ideas and issues that researchers and civil society organizations are pursuing to protect online civil rights. 

Journalism

Can ‘Good Neighbor’ Politics Win in Rural America? Virginia’s Rural GroundGame sees year-round organizing as they key for longterm success and defeating Project 2025. (The Barn Raiser, November 2024)

Madeline Island Moves Toward Zero Waste – How residents on a remote Wisconsin island turn trash to treasure. (The Barn Raiser, November 2023)

Hemp Tea, Wild Rice and Smoked Fish – Growing the Anishinaabe renaissance one CSA box at a time on Madeline Island in Lake Superior. (The Barn Raiser, December, 2022)

Growing food sovereignty on the shores of Lake Superior – On a small Wisconsin island, members of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa and volunteers provide fresh food and restore ancestral connection through gardening. (In These Times / The Wisconsin Idea, September 2021)

Bare Bones, a newsletter about food, family and what nourishes us. Cowritten with my mom, cookbook author Beth Dooley.

The Future of Local News is People: Local news is critical for democracy in countless ways, and although many outlets have been forced to downsize or close in recent years, local news itself is being rebuilt and transformed at the very same time. (Local News Lab Series, December 2019)

Only a fraction of D.C. people of color support the president. Who are they? (DCist, September 2018)

2018 to be another ‘Year of the Woman’ — with one caveat (The Wash, November 2018)

Fierce, fast, femme: “The Wolves” is a coming-of-age tale for the #metoo era (Minnesota Playlist, April 2018)

Remembering Tom Vennum, lacrosse’s unlikely historian (US Lacrosse Magazine, January 2018)