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Hello, I’m Sam

I’m a digital rights advocate and writer. I live on the unceded land of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people of the Eastern Kulin Nation.

I am a PhD Candidate at Monash University with the with the ADM+S Centre. My research — The Machine-Readable Renter — examines the impact that digital technologies are having on renters and housing justice in Australia.

I advocate for a liberatory digital future in which everyone can thrive. I focus on tech because I see technology as a critical landscape upon which power structures and social inequalities are codified and amplified. I’m interested in the material functioning of power and information asymmetries, how we can enhance community safety by resisting carceral and surveillance-based technologies, and the social implications of how data is generated, accumulated, and commodified.

Previously, I have been Head of Policy at Digital Rights Watch, a Privacy and Technology Specialist at Salinger Privacy, and the Program Director at Code Like a Girl.

You can read my full bio here, read my writing and news commentary here, or suss my public speaking here.