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Alyssa is a fifth-year PhD candidate in Network Science at Northeastern University. She is supported by an NSF GRFP Fellowship in Social Sciences - Computationally Intensive Research. Her current work focuses on the human impacts of (and the ways humans can impact) sociotechnical systems. She looks at three networked phenomena in her research – civic discourses, attention dynamics, and information spread – and analyzes how they influence power in networked sociotechnical systems. While her research is primarily grounded in computational social science methods, she also makes use of qualitative methods like semi-structured interviews (plus constructivist grounded theory approaches) and autoethnography to better understand the nuances and deeper contexts of the phenomena she observes.