Select Projects

Designed website “Above clouds and below the sea” for Internet Society Fellowship (2022)
Designed zine (“networks in the wild!”) for international conference, DIY Methods (2022)
Designed, coded, and co-presented digital art and multimedia project about international supply chains used for technology, titled supply-chains.us & resource-project.co (2021)
Created open source list of resources for research, open-source-social-science.github.io (2021)
Designed mock-up for “Atlas of Extractive Industries” for Transparency Lab (2021-2022)
Designed portfolio zine, “i am not an artist” (2019)
Designed mock-project, “the architecture of good intentions” (2019)

Select Publications

“Omnivorous analysis: where do satellite images come from?”, Logic Magazine (2022)
“Who wries the first draft of history?”, The Graduate Press (2021)
“The ‘open’ movement and Its discontents”, Graduate Institute (2020)

J Ding, C Akiki, Y Jernite, AL Steele, T Popo, “Towards Openness Beyond Open Access: User Journeys through 3 Open AI Collaboratives,” (2023)
M Matthiessen, AL Steele, “Rendering Supply Chains Research and Its (Dis)contents: An Anti-Paper on Open Knowledge and Maintenance as a Research Ethos” (2022)
AL Steele “Investigating the Global and Local in Wangchuck Centennial National Park: A Case for the Bhutanese Conservation Actors In-Between” (2018)

Interviewed for expert-panel podcast “AI and its impact on our daily lives” by Graduate Institute (2023) in Geneva, Switzerland.
Interviewed for NHS-R podcast “The Turing Way” (2022) online.

“The Turing Way: Changing research culture through open collaboration”. Presented various conferences included FOSDEM (2022) in Brussels, Belgium.
“Understanding Maintenance as a Turing Way”. Presented at FOSS Backstage (2023) in Berlin, Germany.
“Reimagining global connectivity: low earth orbit satellites and internet supply chains”. Presented at Connected Life in Oxford, UK (2022).
“Rendering supply chains research (in the vector economy)”. Presented at Transmediale, Rendering Research workshop in Brussels, Belgium (2022).
“Mapping crises, communities, and capitalism on OpenStreetMap: situating humanitarian mapping”. Presented at HOT Summit (2021) online and State of the Map (2022) in Florence, Italy.
“Data visualization and crowdsourced research: experiments in collective storytelling”. Presented at csv,Conf,v6 (2021) and RightsCon (2021), both online.
“Mapathons: spaces of care and caretography,” Presented at Harvard GRISTS (2021), online.
“Open Research Data 101”. Presented Frictionless tools at Open Data Day workshop by Open Knowledge Foundation (2021) online.

“Research Infrastructure Roles”. Given at Collaborations Workshop (2022) and Big Team Science (2022, 2023), with Esther Plomp, Emma Karoune,
“Designing for Data Rights in the AI Production Pipeline”. Given at MozFest (2023), with Jennifer Ding and Yacine Jernite.
“Git Good: Using Github for Collaboration”. Given at CarpentryCon (2022), given with Hari Sood and Sophia Batchelor.
“The Social Lives of Our Supply Chains”. Given at MozFest (2021), with Miriam Matthiessen.

Guest lecture for “Internet Geographies” course at The New School, Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts (2022), given with Miriam Matthiessen.

Internet Society – Early Career Fellowship (2022)
Wikimedia Deutschland – Unlock Residency (2021)
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies – Student Leadership Award (2021)
Open Knowledge Foundation – Reproducibility Research Fellowship (2020-2021)
Roy A. Hunt Scholarship & Trailblazer Grant – School for Field Studies (2017)