My dissertation research looks at public participation in Colorado's 2021 congressional redistricting process. Using discourse analysis of public feedback, interviews with Colorado's independent commissioners and people who submitted feedback, and "ground truthing" Colorado's eight congressional districts, I aim to shed light on the possibilities and limitations of participatory redistricting for generating fair representation.

For my Master's research I studied rural property formalization processes in Southwest Colombia, to understand the role of participatory mapping in securing property rights and producing government knowledge about Colombia's territory and the people who inhabit it. Over a total of three months, I interviewed government officials, observed meetings with campesinos (small-holder farmers), and participated in mapping property lines and completing applications for formalization.