voter canvassing

As I prepared to go part-time at Hive, I re-examined what it was I loved about philosophy and what kind of impact I wanted to have with the rest of my career. I decided I need to do more experiments with my life. In 2020, I went part-time and worked on election canvassing in North Carolina and Georgia, looking for the highest-impact way to turn-out marginal voters in important districts for the election and the senate run-off. It was during these years that I also discovered how much I loved cities, and how much unrealized potential we have in so many of our urban environments. That is why I joined the durham bicycle and pedestrian advisory commission and was elected as chair in 2023. I wanted to see what local government could do to improve our built environment, and learn more about how these systems operate and how they might be improved.