Researcher studying platform governance, information integrity, multilingual AI, migration, and public communication through critical digital and computational methods.

I am a Fellow at the Center for an Informed Public at the University of Washington. My research examines platform governance, AI-assisted content moderation, Trust & Safety, internet shutdowns and digital sovereignty, journalist safety, diaspora and transnational media, immigrant information environments, nonprofit and institutional communication, and emerging questions of AI-mediated translation and language access.

My work uses quantitative, qualitative, computational, and mixed-method approaches, including statistical analysis, computational text analysis, classifier audits, web scraping, interviews, ethnography, archival research, discourse analysis, and digital trace data.

• Auditing AI Moderation in Ethiopia's Multilingual Online Sphere — Replication data, documentation, code, and verification materials for From Detection to Counterspeech: Auditing AI Moderation and Fact-Checking Practices in Ethiopia's Multilingual Online Sphere. Article DOI

• Platform Oversight in Practice — Data and research materials for a published analysis of 147 Meta Oversight Board decisions, examining language, geography, policy domains, outcomes, and procedural routing. Article DOI

• Trust & Safety Employment Corpus — Africa — Research materials examining the organization, localization, and labor infrastructure of Trust & Safety work connected to African multilingual internet environments.

• Journalist Safety in Ethiopia — Data and research infrastructure for a long-term study of coercive actions against journalists and media outlets in Ethiopia. Dataset DOI · Article DOI

• Internet Shutdowns in Ethiopia — Research materials on internet shutdowns, political transition, and digital sovereignty in Ethiopia. Article DOI

• Crowdsourcing Rebellion — Data and analysis supporting research on diaspora digital fundraising for Ethiopian rebel groups. Article DOI

• Narrative Flows, Policy Response, and Community Information Integrity in Minnesota — University of Washington Center for an Informed Public fellowship project examining how narratives involving fraud, publicly funded programs, immigration, and immigrant communities circulate across platforms, gain political and institutional attention, and enter multilingual community information spaces. The project also develops a community-facing information-integrity curriculum for educators working with immigrant and multilingual communities. The research repository is currently private while the project is under development.

• American Multilingual Publics and the Digital State — Research on public benefits, language access, multilingual publics, and AI-mediated communication in the American digital state, with a focus on machine translation, human oversight, information integrity, and communicative administrative burden. The initial language track focuses on Amharic and Afaan Oromo.

• When Translation Is Not Access: AI Translation Infrastructure and Communicative Inequality in Under-Resourced Languages — Developing communication study of how global platform companies shape language access through AI translation infrastructure. Using Amharic and Afaan Oromo as an empirical case, the project compares Google Translate and Meta SeamlessM4T across semantic fidelity, pragmatic fidelity, institutional fidelity, and actionability. The repository includes the development corpus, source provenance, system-output workflows, reproducible Meta inference code, reviewer codebook, blinded two-reviewer protocol, adjudication workflow, and planned inter-rater reliability analysis. Hugging Face dataset

• Minnesota Immigration & Nonprofit Communication — Ongoing research on how Twin Cities nonprofits communicate about immigration enforcement across digital platforms; presented at AEJMC 2026.

• Nonprofit News in the Twin Cities — Comparative research on MinnPost and Sahan Journal, local publics, civic issues, and nonprofit journalism.

• Target DEI Boycott — Developing mixed-method study of digital activism, corporate communication, and community accountability.

• Minnesota Immigration Rhetoric & Fraud Coverage Archive — Developing archive and research project on immigration rhetoric, media coverage, and the Somali community in Minnesota.

• Domestic vs. Western Media Framing of the Tigray Conflict — Developing comparative project on conflict framing across Ethiopian and Western news media.

• Audience production and attention measurement — Current research on how platforms operationalize and produce audiences through view thresholds, dwell time, and attention metrics. Materials remain private while under submission.

I also curate the African Media & Communication Research Library, a public Zotero collection supporting research on African media and communication.

These repositories contain code, data, documentation, annotation materials, research instruments, and reproducible workflows from published and ongoing research. Where appropriate, published datasets and archival releases are deposited separately with persistent identifiers and linked from the relevant repository.