She directs the Unstable Design Lab, which explores how technological systems can embrace nonlinear, messy, and otherwise uncertain terrains of everyday life to provoke critical reflection and curiosity. She has bachelor’s degrees in computer science and art from UC Santa Barbara and received her PhD from the School of Information at UC Berkeley. Her research on unstable approaches to digital fabrication and wearable technology have received multiple best paper awards at top HCI conference venues as well as press coverage on Gizmodo and National Public Radio.