About

Victoria is energized by bringing clarity to complex human challenges. A common theme behind her work and studies is the constant endeavor to understand the mechanics and structure of society and the motivations and behaviors of individuals.

Law and anthropology are two separate yet interwoven journeys in understanding the systems of the social world.

I discovered anthropology by design, a happenstance stumble that I aimed for already. After a thorough survey of courses in sociology and psychology, art and history, Russian and linguistics, anthropology offered the combination of all these subjects (in an applied fieldwork course that satisfied a lab requirement), along with the tools and research methods to delve deeper in the layers of why. (LINK)

Law reflects the complex structure of society, where interwoven systems and an institutional framework are put into place based on expected human psychology. My study of law revolved equally on ethics as a hypothetical design fiction, both the factual framework and the fuzzy areas surrounding it. (LINK)

Policy is more proactive than law. Technology is more proactive than policy. Being proactive means prototyping and learning from failure.

The praxis and study of law are disconnected from the people it serves. When I used design thinking methodologies to build legal applications, I recognized the dissonance between an ideal in the pedagogy and the reality how people actually understand and use the law (LINK).

Technology and policy are writing the new frameworks for our society. They are acting ahead of law’s reactionary regulations and paving the path for how we interact with each other (LINK). When releasing a prototype, I witnessed the chances of success versus failure hinge on how much the ideas have been validated by design research from the outset.