I work with technology as a medium.
For nearly two decades, I've built companies, platforms, and systems exploring the relationship between technology, economic participation, and human agency.
From expanding access to Silicon Valley through NewME to pioneering ethical data ownership at Streamlytics, and now developing new approaches to human judgment in AI through FRUIT, my work has consistently explored who shapes technology, who benefits from it, and what happens as these systems become more capable.
My practice moves between technology development, writing, film, and cultural conversations. Some ideas become companies or infrastructure. Others become narratives and experiences that help us understand the systems shaping our world.
Technology, in this context, is not the subject.
It is the material.
Body of Work
My work spans technology ventures, systems design, writing, and creative production. Across different mediums, I've explored how technology shapes participation, ownership, and human agency, translating ideas into companies, infrastructure, and work that reaches beyond the technology itself.
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Essays, documentaries, conversations, and creative projects that examine the relationship between technology, culture, and society.
Selected work
Getting Your Piece of the Data Economy | Freethink: An award-winning short documentary exploring data ownership, economic participation, and the possibility of a more equitable digital economy through my work at Streamlytics.
An AI-Run World Needs to Better Reflect People of Color | WIRED (2019): My essay examining representation, data, and the consequences of artificial intelligence.
The New Internet: An ongoing exploration of human authorship, ownership, and creative sovereignty in an increasingly synthetic digital world.
From Ethical Data to Ethical AI: A retrospective connecting my early work on data ownership to contemporary questions of human agency and judgment in AI.
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Companies and products that translate ideas about technology, ownership, and economic participation into working systems.
Selected work
Streamlytics: Pioneering ethical data ownership and licensing, with more than 10 billion data points processed across 125+ countries.
FRUIT: My current technology company, developing infrastructure and new approaches to human agency in intelligent systems.
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Technical architectures and frameworks developed to address foundational questions about data, ownership, and human authority.
Selected work
Universal Data Interchange Format (UDIF): A standardized approach to making disparate data interoperable.
PAVE: A protocol in development for making authorized human judgment callable within AI systems.
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Building platforms, communities, and opportunities that expand who participates in technology and the value it creates.
Selected work
NewME Accelerator: Founded to expand access to Silicon Valley for underrepresented entrepreneurs, helping founders raise more than $47 million.
BlackWeb 2.0: An early platform connecting the Black technology community and helping make its contributions more visible.
SELECTED FEATURES
MY CREATIVE PRACTICEBuilding is only one part of my practice.
I'm equally interested in how we interpret the technologies we create. Through films, essays, conversations, and other creative work, I explore the relationship between technology, culture, power, and human agency.
My interests move between the technical and the cultural, often examining the same questions through different mediums.
Ultimately my work typically takes on many different forms, but the underlying curiosity remains the same.
Things I’m Thinking On…..
Theses’ I’m currently exploring in my work
As AI transforms the internet into a sea of synthetic content, I'm exploring what comes next. An internet built around human authorship, ownership, and provenance, where original work can be discovered, valued, and experienced on our own terms.
The New Internet
My work in ethical AI began with a question about data: who owns it, who benefits, and who decides how it's used? From Streamlytics to FRUIT, I'm exploring how human agency, judgment, and accountability remain central to the intelligent systems we build.
Ethical AI
a note.
A newsletter on systems, culture, and the future of agency in the age of intelligent systems.