Who, me?

I get a kick out of untangling sociotechnical systems.

 

I founded Untangled, a newsletter and podcast about how to navigate our sociotechnical world. I co-founded The Facilitation Leadership Lab, which helps leaders facilitate organizational change. I coach and advise mission-driven CEOs, Executive Directors, and senior leaders to facilitate change in their teams, organizations, and themselves. And I'm a Non-Resident Fellow with the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab.  

 

Not long ago, at Data & Society Research Institute, I built and ran the Public Technology Leadership Collaborative, 500+ member peer-learning collective of scholars, researchers, and government leaders working to ensure data and technology serve the public interest. I led the Disinformation Action Lab, which won the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public inaugural Award for Excellence for its multi-stakeholder work on the 2020 Census.

 

Once upon a time, I co-founded and ultimately led the Center for Digital Development at the U.S. Agency for International Development. I helped grow the team from 2 to 55, developed our strategy, and designed multi-stakeholder alliances like the Digital Impact Alliance.

I’m a graduate of the University of Washington (Go Huskies!) and the Harvard Kennedy School, I've received training on complex systems from The Sante Fe Institute and The Cynefin Company, and previously served as an Adjunct Lecturer at George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs.

 

I’m a Seattleite by disposition living in Los Angeles, an obnoxiously proud uncle, and a new pug dad.