I’m a qualitative research nerd, and these are the main reasons why:

• 🧐Curiosity | I’ve followed my curiosity from footnotes to fieldwork in 4 different countries. One tracing: As a John Lewis Fellow in Atlanta, I became obsessed with reading about the black scholar and civil rights activist, W.E.B. Du Bois’s and his family members’ residence in Egypt . A few months later, I was in Cairo standing outside that very building for a research project.

• 👥 People & their stories | At family gatherings, people jokingly ask me where my tape recorder is. I’ve worked up a reputation of turning dinner chitchat into follow-up interviews about their myriad migration stories.

• 💭Imagination | I’m constantly daydreaming about ways people can change tech and tech can change people. In my thinking, it’s usually change for the better as a result of centering marginalized groups in research. I believe this with my whole heart: When we design for the margins, we design better for everyone.