My Places:

• The Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts at Princeton University, where I am a Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow from the fall of 2010 until the summer of 2013
• The Informatics and Computer Sciences at UC Irvine, where I worked as a postdoctoral researcher from 2009-2010 working with Professor Paul Dourish's research group and the LUCI Laboratory for Ubiquitous Computing and Interaction
• The NASA-ESA-ASI Cassini Mission to Saturn, my postdoctoral research site and where the action is in the outer solar system
• My research group at Cornell, CEmCom, all about computing in social context
• My dissertation site, the Mars Exploration Rover Mission, with two robots that keep going and going...
• I lead the Imaging the City Workshop in 2007
• Served as President, and Events Chair, of Cornell's Graduate and Professional Student Assembly, and past chair of the University Assembly
• I'm one of the original Action Canada Fellow, selected for public policy and leadership development program as one of Canada's upcoming young leaders...
• My PhD department: Cornell STS

My People:

• Jofish Kaye, who works on technologies that support intimacy, and on the problem of evaluation in HCI, and a variety of other thought-provoking projects
• Shay David, whose work on Open Source software is excellent in both depth and scope
• Paul Dourish, my advisor at UC Irvine and a leader in the critical studies movement in the HCI community
• Phoebe Sengers, my committee member at Cornell, leader of the Culturally Embedded Computing Research Group, and a leader in the critical studies movement in the HCI community
• Lilly Irani, who works on digital labor sites like Amazon Mechanical Turk, and on Postcolonial Computing, specifically transnational design contexts in India, and who also maintains the fabulous blog Difference Engines
• Silvia Lindtner, who works on gaming and digital cultures in China
• Irina Shklovski, professor at ITU in Copenhagen, my fabulous co-author on the GPS and Power paper, who works on digital communication practices that connect diaspora or natural-disaster-afflicted communities
• Emily Dean who takes pictures of Mars
• John Downer, who wrote an award-winning dissertation on engineers who throw chickens at jet engines. No kidding.
• David Ribes, my colleague at Georgetown who works on cyberinfrastructure.
• Molly Steenson, Girl Wonder.
• Amin Ghaziani, Princeton Society of Fellows friend who does brilliant work on the gaybourhood
• Biella Coleman, who studies hackers and is doing an ethnography with Anonymous. No kidding.
• Melissa Mazmanian, who studies blackberries and work/life balance and is a wonderful resource on technology in organizations

My music