Hi! I build software to support peacebuilding, civic participation, and sustainability.

I'm currently a Master's student in Conflict Resolution at UMass Boston.

Previously, I built software for urban planners at MAPC, implemented software with local governments at OpenCounter, and co-ran the Code for America volunteer group Code for Boston.

I write about peace and mindfulness at Peace In, Peace Out.

Projects

Aspen - Simple graph data

I'm building Aspen, a simple markup language that produces data about relationships (that is, graph data). Aspen can help anyone using Neo4j graph databases to load data and iterate on data models with ease. Learn more at aspen-lang.org.

Aspen came out of a desire to model conflicts using graph data, to get deeper insight into the factors that might bring about their resolution. Producing graph data from unstructured text is hard, so I built a language to do just that.

In addition to the base language, the Aspen platform includes or soon may include:

• a command-line interface
• a live coding environment for rapid iteration on data & data models
• a web API
• a package management system