Biography
From a young age, I wanted to be a therapist - after many years of hard work, study, and practice, I became a therapist. As I grew up, I began to realize that for most, life is lived outside the world of therapy and therapists. I wondered how anyone could be effective if they had never experienced the world of work in a non-clinical setting. I then attended business school, and spent seven years doing research on financial behavior for a regional bank holding company. As the banking industry showed signs of consolidation, I was also becoming aware of my need for greater meaning in my work life, and joined a boutique management consulting firm that focused on the intersection between behavior and large organizations (both for- and not-for profit). *Then* I discovered computing. I was fortunate to find myself, early in my career, at the very time the commercial Internet began to take off. Since then, I have built both a consulting and a therapy practice that lies at the intersection of people, work, and technology. It is a very new arena, and a very exciting one.
Recently, I began working with a team at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). Together, we have been researching, among other things: Internet access and speed by geographic location and demographic characteristics; online behavior - particularly link sharing; and disinformation campaigns (detection and mitigation). I have also completed, with my colleague, David D. Clark, PhD, a study on multidisciplinary collaborations, for the National Science Foundation (NSF).
