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Reuters Investigations
Art direction and development
Human Rights Watch Investigations
Art direction, development, and graphics
Forced Labor Supply Chain
Visual mapping
Center for Economic and Social Rights
Web design and migration
A People's Guide to New York City
Maps for a history from below
COVID-19 in NYC Schools
Scraping and visualization COVID-19 cases in NYC schools
COVID-19 Graphics
An archive of COVID-19 graphics and posters from around the web
Silenced.in
Building a platform for stories from solitary confinement
Human Rights Watch Multimedia
Front-end development for interactive special features
ShotSpotter
Charting the impact of ShotSpotter dispatches in Chicago
U.S.-Mexico Border
Mapping the terrain for Human Rights Watch
Big News
Visualizing every banner headline published by The New York Times through 2020
Gaspipe
A pure CSS, variable typeface
COVID-19 Resources
Pocket-sized directory of services and resources for clients of the Legal Aid Society
4AArts
User interface design for this non-profit directory of arts events
Reform Transform Scorecard
Web design and visualization of policing practices in 12 cities
#HumanFamily
Front-end development for this campaign website
Free Azimjon Askarov
Printed broadsheet design
French Hautes-Alpes
Topographic cartography for Human Rights Watch
Policing Poverty and Racial Inequality in Tulsa
Mapping and web page development
Conflict Dynamics around Refugee Settlements in Northern Uganda
Map design of settlements and issues
AppleReader
A customized feed reader for Apple news
Drawing with Swallows
A photographic experiment
Bernstein Institute of Human Rights
Poster designs
CAPstat.NYC
Web design and visualization of NYPD misconduct allegations
CaseClosed.NYC
Ask an interactive chat bot if you are eligible to seal a criminal record in New York State
Executions and disappearances in Punjab
Design and development of this interactive chronicle and memorial
Egypt Social Progress Indicators
Design, development, and visualization in English and Arabic
Antipsychotics in U.S. Nursing Homes
Interactive map design and development
Twitter Bots
Automated tweeting for art and advocacy
Visualizing Data for Human Rights Advocacy
An overview and taxonomy of techniques and hazards
Calendar of Killings by Police
Heat map calendar of people killed by police
Police Violence Report
Animated, visual analysis of 1,147 people killed by police
Badder Zine
Twitterverse zine of rebel women
Journalists Under Attack
Visualization-driven poster for the Committee to Protect Journalists
Civic Hall Labs Health Lab Report
Web design and development summarizing a series of ideation retreats
Freedom to Thrive
Report on policing spending vs social services
OpenStates Watch
A bot to monitor legislative changes on OpenStates.org and alert a dedicated Slack channel
Our States
Interactive visualization of U.S. legislation
We, the T-Shirt
T-shirt design to benefit Planned Parenthood
Campaign Zero
Responsive, interactive cartogram tracking police reform policies
motion.horse
Prototype template-driven legal document generator designed for busy public defenders
Lobbyphone
Text message bot sending legislator phone numbers right to your phone
140 Characters
Design and programming of this interactive profile of digital activists in the Gulf States
Stephens, Catherwood, and Katz
Mapping the routes of two 1840's expeditions to Maya regions, rephotographed from 1985 to 1993
Nigeria School Attacks Timeline
Responsive, scrolling timeline of school attacks by Boko Haram
Data Visualization and Human Rights
Research on data visualization for human rights practitioners and advocates
4,101 Matchsafes
An absurd, programmatically generated museum catalog
Innocence Project
T-shirt design with the names of every person they have helped exonerate
Killed Journalist Database
Web design, development, and interactive visualization
Bronx Defenders Brochure & Case Slips
Information design to help clients navigate the court system
Fund for Global Human Rights
Web design and development
Timeline of Boko Haram Abductions
Responsive timeline and map
Presumption of Guilt
Book layout, design and visualization on the global overuse of pretrial detention
PhoneTogether
Design and programming of this web-based campaigning tool for crowdsourcing phone calls
Committee to Protect Journalists
Website design and developement
nptech.io
Collaborative bulletin board of news and resources for non-profit technologists
Pushcards
Web-based campaigning tool for sending printed postcards to advocacy targets
Migration Routes to Indonesia
Interactive, animated map of Southeast Asia for Human Rights Watch
Security Force Monitor
Interface design and prototyping for this flexible database to monitor abuses by security forces around the world
Human Rights in China
Web site design
Journalists Imprisoned in China
Interactive visualization design and development for the Committee to Protect Journalists
Rockaways Emergency Map
Printed map design of relief and transportation services after Hurricane Sandy
Revenue Watch Institute
Design and development of two interactive, data-intensive microsites
Crowdsourced May Day Poster
Crowdsourcing a crowd of protest bots
Million Hoodie March
Hoodie design for justice
Sight Lines
Design of this printed, alternative tour map of Washington, DC
Academic Publications
Lead author and co-author
Occupy Wall Street Posters
Printed poster designs
Cuban Journalists
Map design
A People's Guide to Los Angeles
Printed map designs for this alternative tour guide
UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women
Annual report design
Attacks on the Press
Publication design for this annual global survey by Committee to Protect Journalists
Imprisoned Journalists
Design, programming, and visualization of this annual census
Massacre in Guinea
Map design for Human Rights Watch
Articles
Essays and interviews on the intersection of design and activism
Various Posters
Independent poster designs
Apperceptive
A design and technology consultancy I co-founded
Visualizing Information for Advocacy: An Introduction to Information Design
Democracy Now!
Web site design
OnFaith
Web site design of an experiment in reimagining the Op-Ed page for the digital environment
AIGA Electronic Ballot Guidelines
User experience and user interface design
HuffIt
Web design for an experimental social news reader
Selected CIA Aircraft Routes and Rendition Flights 2001-2006
Map design
United for Peace and Justice
Posters, flyers, and T-shirts promoting anti-war events
Gold Trade in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Printed map design for Human Rights Watch
Just Vision
Web site and visualization design and development
An Introduction to Activism on the Internet
Research and writing of this briefing paper
Human Rights Watch World Report 2005
Map designs for print
DIY Map
A customizable Flash map widget
T-Shirts for United for Peace and Justice
T-shirt design against the RNC in NYC
Election of 1876
Printed map design for the Columbia Law Review
Human Rights Watch
Web site design, management, and campaigns
Kardze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
Printed maps for Human Rights Watch
Matt Gonzalez for Mayor of San Francisco
Campaign web site design and development
Matt Gonzalez for Mayor of San Francisco
A flexible campaign poster design system
Web of Alliances in Ituri
Information design for Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch T-Shirts
Making the world unsafe for dictators since 1978
Tashkent Interactive
Interactive map design highlighting sites of tourism and repression
Web Log
A blog of notes and clippings on design and activism
Idealist.org
Web site design
No RNC Poster Project
Poster designs
Amnesty International USA
Website design and development for advocacy, communications, and fundraising
Turntable Mousepad
Product design
Peace Poem
Crowdsourced from schools around the world
United Nations CyberSchoolBus
Design and development for online games and quizzes
Ready to Live: Art and Life Beyond Street Violence
Stories from kids and parents who have lost loved ones
Chinese Staff and Workers’ Association 1997 Calendar
Printed calendar design for fund-raising
IBM Patent Server Database
Vintage web design
Ari Marcopoulos Gallery
Experimental, image-driven web design and development
Studio Project
Filling a virtual studio while the real one is emptied
Columbia University Graduate School of the Arts site
Web page design and development