Most recently I was the co-founder and CEO of Yonder, which used AI to help Fortune 500 companies understand public opinion, and was acquired in 2022.

Prior to Yonder I founded a 3,500-member non-profit data science community that worked with organizations like Oxfam and the United Nations, co-founded a top 25 tech podcast about machine learning and pop culture, and was a data science advisor to the Obama White House.

Early in my career I taught myself how to code, and over time grew into a CTO, Principal Investigator, and product leader, leading research teams developing new approaches to information semantics and machine learning automation, and building new products for companies like Ushahidi, SXSW, and AOL.

Over the past decade I’ve become concerned about the negative impacts of the attention economy. In 2014 I co-authored a report for the Brookings Institution about social media manipulation by terrorists and led teams for DARPA using AI to measure extremism online. I advised the US State Department and presented research findings at NATO's Center of Excellence for Defense Against Terrorism, the African Union, and the Mexican Senate, and my op-eds on the polarizing impact of social media have appeared in The Atlantic, The Guardian, and CNN. I’ve also provided commentary to the Wall Street Journal, ABC News, and the Financial Times.