Hello

I am a PhD student at Clemson University and a researcher working at the intersection of rhetoric, technology, and institutional power. My work examines how authority, legibility, and exclusion are produced through mediated systems such as platforms, policies, visual conventions, and algorithmic infrastructures, with particular attention to moments of failure and breakdown.

 

I bring more than 26 years of management experience and a professional background in the technology industry to my research. This experience shapes my interest in governance, organizational decision-making, and the ways institutional logics become embedded in technical systems. I approach theory as a diagnostic tool rather than a closed tradition, aiming to produce concepts that travel across academic and applied contexts.

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I am also a co-founder of Trans Joy, a nonprofit organization centered on amplifying trans joy, care, and community knowledge through media and public storytelling. This work informs my attention to how institutions frame vulnerability, legitimacy, and voice, and how alternative rhetorical spaces can be cultivated in response.

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Alongside scholarly work, I engage in public-facing and creative projects, including podcasting, music, and independent making. I enjoy writing and playing music, woodworking, and playing flag football, and I see creative practice as a complementary mode of thinking rather than a diversion from research. Across all of this work, I am committed to slow inquiry, conceptual clarity, and forms of reflection that resist crisis-driven or reductive accounts of power.