About

I am the CEO and Co-Founder of Germ Network, an end-to-end encrypted messenger without phone numbers. Join us.

Before Germ, I was a Lecturer at Stanford (2017-2022), where I taught the popular writing courses “Hashtag Activism” and “Hiphop, Orality, and Language Diversity.” I hold a Ph.D. in Writing Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies from Syracuse University, an MFA in Creative Writing – Fiction from the University of Michigan, and a Bachelor’s in Religion and Creative Writing from Princeton University.

My research on rhetorical history, antiracist struggle, popular culture, and digital media have appeared in College Composition and Communication, Community Literacy Journal, Peitho, and the Journal of Basic Writing, and my reviews, essays, and fiction have appeared in Harper’s, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Hyperallergic, and more. 

I work from home in beloved San Francisco.