Sole designer and developer of The Forward Directory and accompanying launch campaign.
Master’s Thesis: Ethnographic Research on Civic Engagement Practices in Central Wisconsin
For my Master’s Thesis, I explored digital organizing tools and activists practices in central Wisconsin with a focus on leveraging the principles of educational game design to support civic learning and engagement. For this work I: • Conducted 32 interviews with city staff, nonprofits, and youth throughout the state of Wisconsin • Conducted 4 focus groups throughout Wisconsin • Designed …
Forward: the Game, V1 UX Flow Diagrams
Early screen flow diagrams for the first digital version of Forward.
Wisconsin Civic Engagement Survey
In early 2018 I helped Wisconsin United to Amend to conduct a digital engagement survey to understand the tools used by their membership and youth in the community. Click “launch project” to view the full report.
WIUTA Network Visualizations
Wisconsin United to Amend (WIUTA) is a social movement organization (SMO) based in Madison, WI that is working to curb the influence of money in politics by demanding a 28th amendment to the Constitution. Like many small SMOs, WIUTA has struggled to leverage digital tools to mobilize its volunteers in the real world. This paper explores the role networks play …
Activist Tool Feature Comparison and Analysis
As part of my thesis research, I compared the feature sets of nine tools frequently used by SMOs and ten tools designed to directly support activists in becoming more engaged. Tools for Organizations For the first analysis, I selected nine technologies commonly used by social movement organizations based on their approximate frequency of appearance in web searches and industry …
Community Futures Game Installations
Introduction My work this summer can, in many ways, be summarized by this insightful quote by climate activist Naomi Klein: “Part of our work now – a key part – is not just resistance, not just saying ‘no.’ We have to do that, of course, but we also have to fiercely protect some space to dream and plan for a …
Experiments in Participatory Futurism with the Community Futures Board Game
Final paper on the development of the Community Futures Game concept in CMS.842. Read it here: CommuityFuturesGame_FinalDesignPaper842
Eliciting Learner Knowledge (ELK)
Eliciting Learner Knowledge is a turn-based, improvisational role-playing game where a teacher (played by a teacher candidate) attempts to solicit the understanding of students (also played by teacher candidates) with a distribution of conceptions and misconceptions in a specific content area. I worked with the ELK development team from 2017-2018, during which time we conducted a series of lo-fi game …
Inclusive Design in Interactive Documentary: Textual Analysis of Inequality.Is
Developed by the design company Periscopic in collaboration with the Economic Policy Institute and economist Robert Reich,[i] Inequality.Is is an interactive documentary (i-doc) that pairs playful animations, interactive graphs and videos with personalized information to present an exceptionally approachable, lucid, and engaging argument. Inequlaity.Is was originally released in June 2013 as a companion to the documentary Inequality for All, which …
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