Writer and researcher covering technology infrastructure, digital governance, and the politics of connectivity. Based in Toronto.
I cover the physical and institutional infrastructure that makes the internet work — or fail to. That means undersea cables, spectrum allocation, municipal broadband debates, smart city contracts, and the governance bodies that theoretically oversee all of it.
My work has appeared in The Atlantic, MIT Technology Review, Rest of World, The Walrus, and Toronto Star Weekend. I've been a visiting fellow at the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto, and a contributor to the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic.
Before writing, I worked in telecommunications policy at the CRTC for six years. That institutional experience informs most of what I do: I find the gap between how policy is made and what it actually produces.
I hold a master's degree in public policy from the School of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Toronto, and an undergraduate degree in political science from McGill.
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I take a limited number of commissions per year. I speak at conferences on technology infrastructure and digital governance.
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