More about my job

I work at the AI Initiatives team at the New York Times. My job is seemingly ambiguous, and expansive, which makes it fun but often hard to understand (plus it has AI in the title!). So first let me get out of the way that human guidance and review is one of our guiding principles,¹ and all the writing is done and edited by journalists. What do we do, then? For example, my team creates machine learning tools to semantically search multimedia content, organize unstructured information or analyze large data sets for trends that are hard to parse through. Sometimes, I also contribute to interactive stories.² The New York Times and The New Yorker³ and are different publications. To each, I contribute very different work.

More about Cita Press

I founded Cita Press,⁴ a publisher of open-access books, in 2017. Alongside a small but mighty team and Educopia, we raised ≈$1M to create digital readers, bilingual books and eBooks, and ensure Cita remains free for everyone. We run a studio, sell merch, go to fairs and champion illustrators and writers from all over the world. I’m very proud of this work; please check it out.

More about me

My work seems all over the place at times, but connecting people with art and stories is a common thread. From book publishing, research and writing, to building open source software, to public speaking, or doodling. I’m interested in technology and culture, and how they intersect. I was a 2022-2023 fellow at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, where I researched the history of image manipulation, from spirit photography to AI.⁵ Before, I wrote a book about art and artists (Papel sensible, published in Spanish by Planeta/Espasa)⁶, and worked for multiple contemporary art museums.
I've been invited to a few podcasts (in English⁷ and Spanish⁸), and given some talks⁹. Talk to me about jokes, memes, the literary line between poor memory and fiction, taking baths, crying at the movies, sunset or Times New Roman.

More about Cita

I founded Cita Press, a publisher of open-access books, in 2017. Alongside a small but mighty team and Educopia, we raised ≈$1M to create digital readers, bilingual books and eBooks, and ensure Cita remains free for everyone. We run a studio, sell merch, go to fairs and champion illustrators and writers from all over the world. I’m very proud of this work; please check it out.

More about me

My work seems all over the place at times, but connecting people with art and stories is a common thread. From book publishing, research and writing, to building open source software, to public speaking, or doodling. I’m interested in technology and culture, and how they intersect. I was a 2022-2023 fellow at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, where I researched the history of image manipulation, from spirit photography to AI. I'm now an affiliate there and at metaLAB. Before, I wrote a book about art and artists (Papel sensible, published in Spanish by Planeta/Espasa), and worked for multiple contemporary art museums.
I've been invited to a few podcasts (in English and Spanish), and given some talks (here, here, and here). Talk to me about jokes, memes, the literary line between poor memory and fiction, taking baths, crying at the movies, sunset or Times New Roman.

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