How media moves people, and what it takes to move a city agency.
Integrating Climate Realities into Short-Form Video2025MPA thesis
Marxe School of Public and International Affairs, Baruch College. A randomized experiment comparing integrated, direct, and call-to-action climate messaging in influencer-style video. Integrated messaging held attention and interest while reading as significantly less forced than a call to action. Presented at the Baruch Thesis Capstone Research Symposium.
Reflective Structured Dialogues for Trust Building and Electoral Action2024 to 2025Research assistant
With Don Waisanen and Amy Becker, in partnership with Living Room Conversations and Public Agenda. Survey design, fielding, and data validation for a national study of trust and electoral engagement.
Leveraging AI for Environmental Risk Prediction and Resilience Building2024Co-author
White paper proposing an AI platform for climate risk prediction and resilience planning.
Noise Pollution and Colorado School Scores2023GIS analysis
Maps noise from airports and major roadways against school assessment scores across Colorado, controlling for household income.
Reel Change2024Policy brief
How films like Okja and Mad Max: Fury Road carry environmental messages to audiences that climate documentaries rarely reach.
Curtain Call for Change2023Analysis
The SAG-AFTRA contract and the 2023 strike over AI, read through structural, human resource, political, and symbolic frames.
Ctrl+Alt+Deceit: Keys to Unlocking a Safer Digital Democracy2024Essay
Disinformation, platform accountability, and digital literacy as safeguards for democracy.
Traffic in New York City2024Policy memo
A memo to Governor Hochul, Mayor Adams, and Speaker Adams on reducing vehicle traffic for climate, health, and street safety. Co-authored with Rebecca Chasan, Carolina Cid, and Jacqueline Espinal.
City University of New YorkTeaching associate
Strategic Communications and graduate Philanthropy. Redesigned a four-week philanthropy intensive into a fourteen-week hybrid graduate course.
W50s Neighborhood AssociationTreasurer
A Midtown West neighborhood association working on development, zoning, public safety, and quality of life.
The Ameritania Sign CampaignCampaign
A public records fight to enforce a 2017 Department of Buildings order to remove an LED billboard shining into roughly 180 apartments. Eleven Freedom of Information Law requests, an Article 78 proceeding, and a Community Board 5 letter to the Department of Buildings.
The Lot Across the StreetSeptember 2026Article
Quiet Comes Back to 55th StreetAugust 2026Article
The Half AvenueAugust 2026Article
Ten Years of TemporaryJuly 2026Article
The Phone Call in LieuJuly 2026Article
Remove Illegal SignMay 2026Article
NYOFFFounder
The New York Odyssey Film Festival, now the New York Odyssey Film Fund.