Independent consulting: Research, Comms, & Design

2014-2017

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I provided qualitative research, program strategy, and communications services to social impact organizations. Select highlights:

Research

  • Workplace democracy in the tech sector | Coworker and the Media Democracy Fund

  • Rating and reputation systems for online platforms | National Domestic Workers Alliance

  • Best practices in conducting background checks | NDWA + National Employment Law Project

  • Low-cost digital access to unconnected and under-connected communities | Matter Unlimited

  • Grant from Microsoft Research to continue work on the sharing economy

  • User and design research | Exygy Digital Agency

    • eLearning platform for nonprofit professionals in the Global South

    • Overhauling Stanford School for the Humanities’ site navigation for prospective students, current students, professors, and administrators

  • Think tanks

    • White paper on the ‘Sharing Economy’ | Open Society Foundations

    • Policy paper for the Next American Economy initiative | Roosevelt Institute

    • Understanding resistance and emotive drivers for why members do or don’t join coops | Institute for the Future

Communications and media production