I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Human-Centered Computing program at Georgia Tech. My research interests are focused on the social and technical arrangements within groups who are considered marginal: who may by choice, by education, or by institutional bias remain at the periphery of the mainstream. My dissertation work has focused on the urban homeless one such population affected by the fast paced adoption of new technologies in the social and institutional realms that surround them. The aim of my work is to understand how technological innovations might be deployed to the urban homeless to empower them as legitimate actors within the social ecosystem of urban society. My research touches a number of different domains, including: computer-supported cooperative work, social computing, urban computing, human-computer interaction, and public policy.