I am an Assistant Professor of American Studies at Yale University and a Just Tech Fellow at the Social Science Research Council. My research centers on the social and cultural dimensions of information, with a particular emphasis on the relationship between labor and the development of artificial intelligence.

My book, Platform Extractivism: Data Work and the People Powering Artificial Intelligence (University of California Press, October 2026), investigates the interplay between human labor and data production in the AI industry with a focus on Latin American data work and the emergence of digital platforms as infrastructures that facilitate extractivism in the region.

My academic articles have been published in journals including Big Data & Society, Information, Communication & Society, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, and the Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. My research and commentary have appeared in media outlets including The Economist, Fortune, WIRED, the MIT Tech Review, and NBC. My research has been supported by the International Development Research Centre and the Social Science Research Council, with funding from the McArthur, Ford, and Surdna foundations.

I hold a Ph.D. in Information Science from the University of Toronto and have held visiting appointments at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Weizenbaum Institute. I am a fluent speaker of Spanish, French, and English, and I am currently learning Japanese. よろしくお願いします！