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Always have somethin'
cookin'

A SHORT HISTORY OF MY WORK.

Oasis

2022 - Today

Netherlands

Viet Nam

Cambodia

China

Turkey

India

Pakistan

Poland

United States

Oasis recently went on tour to these two countries!

Oasis grew out of our need for a system that could easliy collect and manage a vast number of stories. Today Oasis has more than 4000 stories (and loads of associated information and data) tucked away in a database. 

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Oasis is more than a library, each story can be linked with other similar stories to form storylines around shared locations. These storylines can grow and change over time, offering us a glimpse of how our work changes over time.

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We are also working on a new set of visualizations that will let us find new, previously undiscovered patterns in our stories across the organization.

WE Program

2020 - Today

Netherlands

Viet Nam

Cambodia

China

Turkey

India

Pakistan

Most of my work in the past fours years has been for the WE Program, a dialogue-based human rights program that works in factories across Asia.

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I started as a desk researcher, reading reports and studying evaluation methods. Then I moved into the experimental evaluatio space, where I combined story work with big data to search for patterns at large and small scales quickly. 

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Now I wear many hats in the WE Program, a number of them technical in nature. But at my core, for the WE Program, I am still an evaluator working to make sense of stories. The WE Program is great. 

Spark Narration

2022 - 2023

Netherlands

Suriname

This was my first real experience with culturally sensitive stories. Thankfully, my friend Thirza set me up with two more expert Surinamese storytellers. I spent a lot of time researching and listening to their stories, mostly learning about a history and style of storytelling that was totally new to me.

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It was also great fun. We laughed a lot, even though the stories could be heavy at times. And I'm very proud of the stories we were able to collect. 

Click here to see the story.

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Justice & Peace

2020 - 2022

Netherlands

Peru

The Gambia

Even though my work with Justice & Peace was as a journalist, the time spent with three human rights defenders greatly influenced how I see the world and my work. 

TU Delft

2020 - 2023

Netherlands

I started a large sense-making project with the university in early 2020, just as we were wrapping up our documentary work in Solotvyno.

 

Then COVID-19 came along and washed that project, along with almost everything else it seems, away.

 

I documented the first month of the lockdown with a daily podcast, making sense of what was happening on interview at a time. I still regularly host workshops and talks at my old stomping grounds.

Master's Degree
Engineering & Policy Analysis

TU Delft

"Regular" Engineering

2011-2017

Germany

Japan

Spain

Poland

Slovenia

India

Germany

United States

Before I went and got my master's degree, I was a "regular" engineer. In my second stint in Germany, I worked on Nissan projects as the lead engineer. It was tough, unglamorous work. I got to travel a lot though, and I spent much of time either in the lab or the factory, learning the ins and out of measurements.

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In India before that I had my best job, as the Liason Engineer for a factory in India trying to learn how to build a helicopter. I juggled schedules, evaluated parts, and hosted lots of meetings. We had a huge team and made great time once things got running in the factory. 

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Most notably before all of that is probably my time in flight test, where I was first introduced to large-scale data collection system. 

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