Land Stewardship

Director of Fly Ranch. 2017-present.

5.9 sq mi (3.8K acres) dumping ground converted to interactive art park, hot springs healing center, community food, herb, and medicine garden, and ranch. Support 50 - 500 people a week on-site nine months a year. Facilitator and co-author of Burning Man’s 2030 Environmental Sustainability Roadmap.

I’m at 14:35, 45:58, 57:38, 1:01:01, and 1:04:38

Open-Source Data Science Co-Founder & Executive

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

Built MVP and V1, grew team to 80, 1M users, $7M raised, $2M ARR. Currently: 89K GitHub ⭐s (#125 on GitHub), 50M+ users, 10M+ downloads/mo, $30M raised.

300+ person Plotly party. See photos.

A talk at PlotCon

Event Design & Production

I enjoy organizing purposeful, fun, and transformative events, campouts, fundraisers, and gatherings. I’ve organized and supported 115 multi-day overnight campouts, events, and retreats at Fly with 20 - 300 people.

Five day 300 person campout. See photos.

Writers Emerging, a writing retreat (post).

Maps, Planning, & Permits

Fly Ranch, 2017 - Present

Permits, plans, insprections, and master plans for operations, events, structures, well, farming, water rights, kitchens, grazing, agriculture, organic farming, gardening, beekeeping, composting toilets, solar, and more.

Interactive Fly Ranch Site Plan & Map

Design Challenge, Art & Project Map

300 Person Ten Day Event. See photos.

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. Shipped membership at Change.org that has 250,000+ supporters.

“Make a dashboard online” for Plotly

“Start a petition” for Change.org

Change.org Membership

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. My work on the Solicitor General has been cited by the NYT, Stanford Law Review, and Yale Law Journal. I have 800+ 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. My article on Worcester v. Georgia has 20+ citations, including in the American Indian Law Review, National Indian Law Library, and Homeland Security’s 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 Contributor, 2009-10.

I wrote and live blogged two weekly articles on the Supreme Court and oral arguments. Imprecise Language & Citizens United Polling was cited in the Senate Committee on the Judiciary. Cameras & the Supreme Court has been cited in seven law review articles. 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).

Managed $600K budget, created $75K student fund, led campaign to move exams from Jan. and Feb. to Dec., and first Harvard Day of Service Co-organizer. The Harvard Crimson Editorial Board wrote in Mar. ‘08 that “The road to Ad Board reform is long, but if Sundquist can effectively influence positive reforms, then his legacy will loom far beyond the frequently trivial day-to-day concerns of the UC and profoundly impact student well-being for years to come.” We reformed the Ad Board (that article is from Jun. ‘09).