Selected Writings
ScienceDaily Coverage: COVID-19 shutdowns disproportionately affected low-income black households 2020
Foreign Affairs: Latin America’s Covid-19 Nightmare 2020
Business Insider: Covid19 shows us we must improve how we treat delivery workers 2020
American Interest: NAFTA on the Brink? 2019
Written + Audio: What happens after an ICE raid 2017
Written + Audio: The Fall of Sheriff Joe Arpaio 2017
TED Blog: 10 years of evolving biotech (for the 10 year anniversary of talks on TED.com)
TED Blog: From 1984-2016: TED Talks on interfaces to our technology (for the 10 year anniversary of talks on TED.com)
In Code Like a Girl: A case for helping your teammates negotiate their contracts
Made by TED: From a fact checker: how to sort through news and fake news
Yale Daily News: On the Secure Communities Act in Connecticut
Yale Daily News: On my remittances research and hidden fees in remittance transfers
Yale Daily News: After the Boston Marathon Bombing
Yale Daily News Columns from 2010-2013
Talks
TEDxMunich 2014: Lessons from the Informal Economy
TEDGlobal 2013: Best practices for TEDxUniversity level events
TEDGlobal 2014: Demystifying the other economy
Sights Unseen: TED@250
ECCSF at Yale (2011): I love crazy art stunts for good causes
Selected Coverage of My Academic Work
American Association for the Advancement of Science: Covid-19 shutdowns disproportionately affected low-income black households (2020)
Migration Policy Institute: Managing the Pandemic and its Aftermath (2020)
The Rick Smith Show: Amazon workers deserve better (2021)
Public Utilities Commission, State of California Brief on Utilities under Covid-19 Shutdown (2021)
Tech Policy Press: Algorithms and the plight of the gig worker (2021)
Washington Center for Equitable Growth (2023): Automated and algorithmic management is already here, invisibly shaping job quality for U.S. workers