Speaking

Over the years, I’ve done a good amount of public-facing work in the form of lectures, panels, and teaching. I enjoy it most of the time – because I’m always interested in bringing subjects to a wider audience, and cross-pollinating concepts and ideas between different disciplines, communities, and organisations.

Gabriella Coleman called conferences “the rituals of our time”, and I tend to agree with her. For me, talks and lectures are opportunities to think out loud, and panels are a space to be in conversation with others. Maybe they force a deadline for exploring a research interest, or are a chance to enunciate a point of view with more clarity of purpose.

Jessica Meyerson also calls facilitation both “an art and a science”, and I agree with that too. Facilitation, like gatherings, holds the power to bring people together in ways they might not expect, and in modes they might not otherwise be exposed to. I love bringing people together in ways that make us more human, and that expand what we think is possible.

In any case, I’m always grateful for the opportunity to share in different forms. You can find a few examples of what this looks like below.

Talks

Here are a few examples of talks:

A few other recorded and/or documented talks are listed below. Some were given collaboratively, others individually:

“Mapping crises, communities and capitalism on OpenStreetMap” (State of the Map 2022 – Firenze, Italy)
“Understanding Maintenance as a Turing Way” (FOSS Backstage 2023 - Berlin, Germany)
“Untangling the frictions and cohesions between (digital) democracy and open source” (Geneva Graduate Institute 2024 – Geneva, Switzerland)
Comparative perspectives on the human infrastructures behind open knowledge (Data Justice Conference 2023 – Cardiff, UK)

And a few examples of podcasts that I’ve been featured in recently:

Teaching

A few workshops, given more recently:

“Poetic Computing 101”. Given at Collaborations Workshop (2026)
“Designing for Data Rights in the AI Production Pipeline”. Given at Mozilla Festival (2023), given with Jennifer Ding and Yacine Jernite
“Rendering supply chains research (in the vector economy)” – Transmediale Rendering Research workshop (2022), given with Miriam Matthiessen
“The Social Lives of Our Supply Chains” – Mozilla Festival (2021), given with Miriam Matthiessen

Guest lectures

“Walking + Mapping: Methods for Attention and Presence” – Guest lecture for MA Graphic Communication Design students workshop series (invited by Matthew Chrislip) (2026)
“Researching and Rendering supply chains research in digital space(s)” – Guest lecture for “Internet Geographies” course at The New School (2022), given with Miriam Matthiessen (invited by Morgan Mueller)

I’ve also given many workshops for using Github, Open Science and Open Research practices, and other related practices.

Facilitation

Here are some examples of and moderating discussions and workshops:

The Alternative Education series (2025-ongoing): An ongoing collection of dialogues on non-traditional learning spaces, community-led knowledge production, and experimental pedagogies. Watch on Youtube

The Turing Way Fireside Chat series (2022-2025): A recurring set of conversations bringing together practitioners, researchers, and community organisers working on open, ethical, and inclusive data science. Watch on Youtube

Git for Good Github Workshop series (2022-2025): Building off of materials built by Kirstie Whitaker and Malvika Sharan, the Git Good workshop is a workshop for learning how to use the Github platform.