Projects & Case Studies:
A selection of large-scale digital curation and metadata projects designed triaging collections, consolidate workflows, and developing repository viability.​
Institutional Memory (2023): A massive, coordinated, multi-phase metadata migration with the Royal Ontario Museum, of 75,000+ assets from TMS to Axiell DAMS with Azure Cloud, implementing standardized crosswalks, SHA-256 fixity verification, and 3-tier backup for long-term data integrity. Embedded Evergreen Digital Strategy using iterative QA cycles, scalable taxonomies, and real-time access monitoring, for adaptability to evolving user behaviors. Developed responsive APIs and knowledge transfer frameworks grounded in OAIS, PREMIS, and CoreTrustSeal principles, for sustainable, user-centered infrastructure for a successfully established living digital ecosystem strengthening institutional memory and sustainable heritage access
Digital Gap Assessment and Preservation Policy Framework (2023):
a UC-wide inventory of 300+ TB of assets, in collaboration with the UC Digital Library and California Digital Library, mapping metadata coverage and storage risks to NDSA levels and rendering preservation priorities aligned with CoreTrustSeal, followed by a journey analysis and benchmark policy outlining Merritt, HathiTrust, and Chronopolis workflows against CHIN and OAIS standards, with policy updates and staffing models for long-term trustworthiness.
Writings, Proposals, & Publications:
A selection of professional proposals, academic publications, editorial projects, and digital periodicals highlighting clarity, providence, and accessibility.
Create, Construct, Refurbish, (2023): a collaboration with The Palestinian Museum for disbursement of a $480K Aliph Foundation international grant, with requisition for auxiliary financing, regulatory funding and critical preservation techniques focused on ethical implications of material deterioration.
Murals of Transformation: (2024): Led global collaborative for Johns Hopkins graduate thesis analyzing ethical digital preservation metadata classification, and inclusive access of Arab female street artistry, with interactive, global, case studies, and partnerships under a digital curatorial framework, with policy recommendations authored on responsible AI in automated governance systems
Vestiges of Levantine Vision, (2022): UC Berkeley Honors Senior Thesis, involving a critical analysis of Jordanian Visual Culture, against stakeholder engagement and expert policy, examining contemporary Jordanian society and the ongoing separation with their surrounding cultural heritage.
Featured Installations:
A selection of immersive narrative-driven collaborations, musings, and research, fusing technology and accessibility with sociopolitical and cultural realism to advance public engagement, educational use, and long-term academic access.
Comparative Indigenous Solidarity (2026): Applied research translating operational insights for the design of a formal Native American and Palestinian solidarity organization highlighting the poignant consistency and parallels between the requisite recognition, cultural awareness, historical injustices, and demands for rapprochement reflected within each. The profound collective experiences of colonial expulsion, and dehumanizing treatment, alongside the equally acute steadfast defiance, and un- breakable resilience, demonstrated by both Indigenous communities across the board, and historically by Palestinians, have created a solid foundational bridge of opposition to cultural appropriation, misinformation, land grabs, and environmental militarization revealing a powerful parallel framework of civic organizing grounded in dignity, nonviolence, and research-based programming that could, and should, be formally strategized to maintain cultural endurance, advocate for autonomy, and identify youth-centered potential.
Rebuilding Public Trust (2026): Research summary focused on the potential of AI for public opinion research within Israeli and Palestinian engagement, highlighting the massively compelling collective suspicion and persecutory perspective from each being voiced in fear of an ultimately existential threat from the other. This piece outlines an alternative, and non-military use for AI that is neither a part of the current questionably defined 'counterterrorism' surveillance efforts nor part of the additional algorithmic prejudice further proven in Steinert and Kazenwadel's 2024 study. Instead given that tapering polarization is key to fostering exchange and with LLM models providing notable potential for this, AI-assisted appears to reveal a conditional openness beneath the diametric opposition - specifically, within discussions on safety, dignity, and economic stability. If conducted properly, with a strong ethical framework, then the critical patterns presently emerging from AI- facilitated polling and dialogue analysis could create substantially viable recommendations for policymakers seeking to scale peace-building interventions.
Humanity Formed of Hardship (2026): An examination of altruism born of suffering and the functionalist response of social cohesion to acute, existential threats and the tactical defense of unifying against a common enemy
Engagement, Nonviolence, & the Future of Human Rights (2026): The implications of defending U.S. Civil Liberties against the resulting impact on Palestinian humanity, with community engagement as a sustainable tool for global peace.
Chris Gazaleh: Bay Area Street Muralist Using Public Art to Advocate for
Palestinian Humanity (2022): Article exploring San Francisco–based Palestinian street muralist, Chris Gazaleh, and his journey to promote humanity, compassion, and cultural integrity, throughout the greater Bay Area.
Imagination Unleashed (2024): a proposal for an innovative, interactive exhibition transforming the artistry and narrative of Alice in Wonderland, Arabian Nights, and Where the Wild Things Are, into an immersive, customizable VR experience using the Varjo VR-1. Developed to allow visitors engagement with the environments and characters in a visually dynamic, exploration, focused on accessibility, narrative interactivity, and educational engagement, to push the boundaries of museum storytelling
An Overabundance of Undertone a previous 2011 publication with Examiner.com highlighting the contemporary state of goth culture and music
Multilingual QR Code Integration UX Research: (2024): UX research to improve the digital accessibility and visitor engagement at San Francisco’s Museum of the Eye, through designing a multilingual QR code system delivering translated content with a seamless, web-based experience. The initiative addressed the museum’s currently underutilized mobile app and limited non-English access by allowing visitors to select their language and navigate the exhibits via an interactive map. This work combined UX research, content strategy, accessibility planning, and metadata refinement, with deliverables including multilingual interface mockups, UX testing plans, adaptive design strategies, metadata standardization, a scalable framework for future language expansion, audio guides, and immersive AR/VR features. The project translated complex technical, institutional, and accessibility details into clear, engaging, user-centered content, for an inclusive, sustainable, and long-term digital experience
Some projects completed for external stakeholders:
Art in Humanity, (2022): Official artist website developed in collaboration with San Francisco-based artist Chris Gazaleh for inclusion into UC archival ecosystem, with multilingual metadata-verified navigation and UX-centered architecture translated into structured, cross-device, frameworks with accessibility tagging developed to improve semantic discoverability and optimize thematic messaging, with engaging, educational, institutionally-aligned narrative
QR-enabled, multilingual digital visitor interface The Museum of the Eye’s ultimate
QR-enabled multilingual app for which the above UX research was conducted. With
the help of the digital interfaces, navigation microcopy, interaction logic, clarity-centric user flows, and cognitive-load analysis I suggested, the app was finalized with unifying platform labeling, that synthesized user activity and pain points into one clear UX.