Collective action solutions. Open-source software. Data science. Land stewardship. Emergent strategy.

Land Stewardship, Sustainability, & Climate Action

Director of Fly Ranch. 2017-present.

5.9 sq mi (3.8K acres) dumping ground converted to participant-led art park, community center, healthy ecosystem, and working ranch.

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2021 Fly Ranch design challenge results

Open-Source Data Science Co-Founder & Executive

Plotly Co-founder, COO 2012-15. Advisor, 2015-present.

Built MVP and V1, grew team to forty, 1M users, $7M raised, $2M ARR. Currently: 89K GitHub ⭐s (#125 on GitHub), 50M+ users, 10M+ downloads/mo, $30M raised.

A talk at PlotCon

A Jupyter Notebook I wrote in 2015

A 2017 open-source collaboration

Data Science, Growth, & Search Product Manager

Plotly, Water.org (2016-’17), and Change.org Product Manager, 2015 - 2016.

Used Python and Google Ads to identify search terms with high lifetime value, engagement, and growth. Built content, backlinks, and products to win searches and free, high-quality organic traffic. 👉 350.org proposal that explains this method.

“Make a dashboard online” for Plotly

“Start a petition” for Change.org

Privacy Product Management & Scholarship

Facebook Privacy 2011-12. California Vital Statistics Advisory Committee 2012-14.

Managed privacy on 5-10 weekly releases for growth, feed, hardware, and data. Third member of Privacy Team. PM for FB.com/dyi, PM Bootcamp, Data Science Bootcamp. Cited by Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

Online privacy article cited in the Senate

Online privacy & social contract talk

Internet Society panel. Jump to 1:08:49

Political Science Scholarship

Articles, statistics, and graphs on social issues.

Post I wrote in White House partnership

21 Graphs about Supreme Court

Supreme Court Scholarship

Student Fellow, Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession 2011-12.

Managed three research assistants on 30 year Supreme Court analysis with R, Python, and MongoDB. Cited by NYT, Stanford Law Review, Yale Law Journal. 600+ citations on Google Scholar. My h-index—a scholarly impact metric—is 4. The average law professor’s is 2.8. 

Corporate impact at the Supreme Court

John Paul Stevens audio

Social Contract Scholarship

College thesis on Tupac, social contract, and personal codes of conduct in non-ideal political climates. Cited by the American Indian Law Review, National Indian Law Library, and Indian Law Handbook.

Thesis supervised by Prof. Tommie Shelby

American Indian Law Review article

Pyramid Lake High School unit co-taught

Supreme Court Reporter

SCOTUSblog.com 2009-10.

Two or more weekly articles on Supreme Court. Co-recipient of American Bar’s Silver Gavel Award.

Interview with Oyez.org creator & director

Statistics & philosophy applied to surveys

Proposals for cameras in Supreme Court

Harvard Student Body President

Harvard student body VP (2007-08) and President (2008-09).

Created transparency, fairness, and student support on Harvard Administrative Board.. $600K budget, created new $75K student fund, led campaign to move exams from end of Jan. to Dec. Advocated for community policing as member of President’s Cmte. on Improved Policing.

First Harvard Day of Service co-organizer.