2024 · Founder / Design / Build
Soonlist
How can we get out to IRL events more and scroll less?
A community-supported app that turns event screenshots into plans to share.
10,000+ events saved
Questions, made into projects.
A few projects, and the questions behind them.
2025 · Design / Build
EZ Pilot Apps
What if pilots could spend less time applying and more time flying?
Designing and building the technology behind a shared pilot profile and browser extension for completing airline applications.
One profile, carried across airline forms.
2026 · Dream / Design / Build
Protocontent
What if the things we made with AI could leave the chat?
A tool that turned agent-made prototypes, plans, and other files into live pages you could open and share.
Useful in its moment; today, many AI tools include similar artifact views.
2023–2026 · Dream / Host / Organize / Build
School of Art and Time
What if we made a little more room for each other?
Helped turn my loft into a community space for dinners, workshops, and creative collaboration.
Three years of gathering, with hundreds of unique attendees.
2023 · Design / Build / Lead
air.health
What if we could see the air around us?
Led the design and build of Aclima’s public platform for block-by-block air quality data.
National coverage of data revealing pollution’s unequal burden on communities of color.
2022 · Dream / Design / Build
PostPostcard
What if a moment together came back in the mail?
A tool for sending 6 × 9-inch photo postcards as easily as an email.
Hundreds of postcards sent.
2020 · Design / Build
Cellular Chorus
What if a room full of phones became a chorus?
A website that turns participants’ phones into a shared instrument, with sounds and colors by Patricia Wolf.
Played at organized events and impromptu gatherings across at least four countries.
2019 · Design / Build / Lead
Small Donor Elections Portland
What if a city’s politics belonged to more of its people?
An open-source donation-management app and public dashboard for Portland’s small-donor matching program.
Launched in six months. Supporting Portland’s small-donor elections since 2020.
2019 · Design / Build / Lead
CIVIC Platform
What if building public technology were a public effort?
Led design and data visualization across five project teams and was the shared platform’s top code contributor.
Shared public-data tools built within Hack Oregon’s community of over 1,000 contributors.
2016 · Dream / Build
Original skateboard emoji proposal
What if skateboarding wasn’t left out?
Researched and submitted the proposal that became the skateboard emoji.