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How Digital Solutions Enhance Voting Security in New Orleans
In the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, Maria, a displaced New Orleans mother, uses her smartphone to securely vote through advanced homomorphic encryption, demonstrating how technology can connect citizens despite adversity. The Grand Marshal Project aims to enhance secure voting and community engagement while addressing accessibility for marginalized populations, especially during…
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Digital Education and Activism
For those of you who know me, the idea of mixing technology with doing good work has always given me that right amount of motivation to make some heavy lifts. When the Brewster Whitecaps came to me with a 30-page booklet that was their intake paperwork system which they snail…
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Looking Up, Looking Down: Homelessness
Small town Corvallis is home to over 800 housing insecure residents, some of whom support themselves through panhandling around the downtown post office. There are countless perspectives on the ‘problem’ of homelessness, but often one viewpoint is left out and that is how the homeless view the world through their…
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Culture in Pornography: We See What We Want
What was once considered the most egalitarian act a person could participate in, was removed from democratized consumption and relegated to only a special few who had both the wealth and standing. How has our relationship with this form of communication come full circle in just over 200 years, from…
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What People are Saying
During the twenty years I have been a manager, I had the privilege of working with hundreds of people. I invited all of them to a website I created with the purpose of recording their opinions about working with me. I received countless responses, all of them incredibly positive, which…