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    <span>Athens, Georgia · University of Georgia</span>
    <span>Legal Researcher</span>
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    <span>Connect</span>
    <span class="italic">with</span>
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      Research<br>
      The law, Community networks and Psychology &amp; civic infrastructure
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      UGA · Athens, GA
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      Latest on GitHub<br>
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      I like to create networks.
      To <em>see the broader view</em> of what holds communities together.
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      <p>I'm a researcher at the University of Georgia and a community volunteer in Athens, Georgia. My work often, but not limited to, sits at the intersection of civic infrastructure, network analysis, legal research, and community psychology</p>
      <p> When I am not working on side projects of whatever I'm obsessed with that month, I love to attend concerts, go see movies, hang with friends, play board games.</p>
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        <div class="side-item-title">The 26 Words That Created the Interet</div>
        <div class="side-item-meta">Jeff Kosseff</div>
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      "Communities have always taken care of each other. That knowledge of connection used to live in neighborhood memory."
      <cite>— On the Invisible Hand Athens project</cite>
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