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The care gap in the Kingdom ➹
Hardwick lost its pharmacy in 2024. How did this affect access to care in the region? If we can get a new pharmacy back in the area, where should it go? I did some math, made some maps. -
Local Option Tax: weighing the option ➹
Hardwick Gazette
Many towns around Vermont are hoping to increase revenue this year by imposing a Local Option Tax. Does it make sense for Hardwick? -
Imagining a new community forest ➹
Hardwick Gazette
Hardwick has a unique opportunity to conserve Buffalo Mountain as a community forest. I hope we do. -
Automated reminders reduce incarceration for missed court dates: Evidence from a text message experiment ➹
Science Advances
Results of research we conducted with public defenders to reduce incarceration from missed court dates. -
Introducing the United States Place Sampler (USPS) ➹
The Markup
Easily sample random U.S. street addresses using this new tool from Big Local News and The Markup -
Cities and states emptied jails to prevent infection. They should stay empty. ➹
Washington Post
When the coronavirus pandemic hit, California quickly realized that the 70,000 people jailed across the state would be especially vulnerable — and that an outbreak behind bars, once it began, could be uncontrollable. Many were incarcerated not because they’d been convicted of a crime, but simply because they couldn’t pay bail. -
Racial disparities in automated speech recognition ➹
PNAS
The leading speech recognition tools misunderstand Black speakers twice as often as white speakers. I helped run this analysis and quantify the disparity for this paper. I also built this explainer website.