about

Current

Working on some film projects at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies intensive at the Maine College of Art & Design. I'm also open to freelance and consulting work. If you have a project to discuss, drop me a line over email or schedule a short chat on my calendar!

Past

Senior UX Researcher at Jigsaw, a unit within Google that explores threats to open societies, and UX researcher for the New York Times R&D Lab. Research Fellow @ Partnership on AI and First Draft investigating tactics for labeling manipulated media for the public. UX for the News Provenance Project @ The New York Times, UX design @ Bloomberg LP, content strategy @ Pop Up Archive. Studied @ The School for Poetic Computation, MHCI @ Carnegie Mellon, Linguistics @ UCSC.

contact

On the Internet under the moniker of "Saltzshaker." Or email me essaltz [at] gmail.com to say hi, that would be 🆒.