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Research
Public work
CV
Photos
Coffee map
Currently listening to
Op-Eds
- On institutional neutrality in name but not in deed at Yale (Yale Daily News, 2024)
- On university boards of trustees and student intervention (Teen Vogue, 2023)
- On Pennsylvania’s open record laws and state universities (Philadelphia Inquirer, 2023)
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On reforming political appointments to Penn State’s board of trustees (Penn Capital-Star, 2023)
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On queer studies and safety at Penn State (Centre Daily Times, 2022)
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On Penn State trustees’ illegal secret meetings and decisions (Daily Collegian, 2022)
Reports
Campaign Finance on Penn State’s Board of Trustees (analyzing the political contributions of the University’s trustees from 2010 to mid-2022, assembled in July 2022)
Software and Data
SEC Private Fund-Firm Manager Database (in-development tool to link investment limited partnership names to firms, originally built to assist organizers challenging university investments in genocide and militarism)
Open records
- Yale police department emails from April 2024 on response to anti-genocide student protests (August 2024)
- Penn State trustees’ “American exceptionalism” report and transparency at the university (May 2023)
- State College, PA police emails on police response to Proud Boys speaking event and surveillance of student organizers (January 2023—part 1, part 2)
- PA Agriculture secretary’s emails to and from Penn State trustees and presidents between 2015-2022 (August 2022)