affordable housing, storytelling with soundscapes, intentional community, and worker-owned tech. Give me a poke to chat about or colab on any of these things.

taught computers how to see plants at Understory and move boxes at Pickle Robot Co. Before that, I built interactive maps for DSTI in Freetown, Sierra Leone. I've also taught autonomous boats how to shapeshift for my thesis in the Senseable City Lab at MIT and remember a thing or two about optimization.

community radio, sunny afternoon walks, friends sharing music and stories, tea (jasmine, white, rooibos, matcha, lemongrass), red beets, fingerpicking my guitar, miscellaneous diy projects, usable Afaan Oromoo dictionaries, and dark short stories definitely – for sure – followed by a good night's rest.

is wherever my people are ~ Cambridge and Somerville, where I have lived several versions of myself and learned what it means to build community; New York, where I spent much of my childhood; Amsterdam, a constant in my life; and Finfinne, where I have family.