Tracking the Pandemic
A Pulitzer Prize-winning data project with the New York Times
ChiVaxBot
Which Chicagoans are getting vaccinated? A viral Twitter bot for South Side Weekly
Chicago Protest Timelines
A series of web interactives for first-person documentation of protests and police violence in Chicago, summer 2020
The Circuit
An award-winning Chicago local news collaboration investigating 19 years of the Cook County courts
Against Punishment
Print design and art direction for a zine by Mariame Kaba
After the Trial
Print design for “After the Trial: A Legal Toolkit for Prisoners and Their Loved Ones.” 32 pages, made in collaboration with City Bureau fellows
Build Coffee
A coffee shop and bookstore in the Experimental Station on the South Side of Chicago
Code of Silence
How the Chicago Police Department covered up for a gang of criminal cops
If It Bleeds It Leads
A reported piece on crime reporting for the South Side Weekly
Pleasure Won: A Conversation with Lauren Berlant
An interview with the illustrious affect theorist for The Point Magazine’s What Is America For? issue
Is the Weather Weird?
A battalion of Twitter bots monitoring whether or not the weather is weird
@everylava
A groovy Twitter bot
Managing Hearts with Kim and Flo
An essay on casual games and affective labor for The New Inquiry
City-Run Englewood Clinic Abruptly Shuttered
Federal funding gets cut, yet HIV rates remain high in vulnerable communities. An investigation for the South Side Weekly
Infection City
An asymmetrical board game about epidemiology, vaccines, public health resource distribution, and meningitis
Please Unfold
A month of queer zines at the University of Chicago Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality
Skylark Birthday E-Card
A little Bitsy game and birthday invitation to my favorite Chicago bar.
#chano4mayor
A website, voter registration drive, Twitter bot, and exercise in political imagination
Noise Before Music
Scenes from the life of legendary performance artist travis travis
At Church on the 9, A Spotlight on Black Joy
An article for Chicago Magazine, written as part of a City Bureau Reporting Fellowship
Hearsay
A storytelling card game about contraception and safer sex, plus relationships, emotions, and social networks
Serious Game Bot
A Tracery Twitter bot generating four serious game ideas a day