Athens, Georgia · University of Georgia Legal Researcher
Connect with communities.
Research
The law, Community networks and Psychology & civic infrastructure
Work
UGA · Athens, GA
Latest on GitHub
github.com/mtcates-lab
Mutual Aid ✦ Civic Infrastructure ✦ Community Organizing ✦ Open Source Tools ✦ Mutual Aid ✦ Network Analysis ✦ Civic Infrastructure ✦ Community Organizing ✦ Information Theory ✦ Open Source Tools ✦
Who I am
I like to create networks. To see the broader view of what holds communities together.

I'm a researcher at the University of Georgia and a community volunteer in Athens, Georgia. My work often, but not limited to, sits at the intersection of civic infrastructure, network analysis, legal research, and community psychology

When I am not working on side projects of whatever I'm obsessed with that month, I love to attend concerts, go see movies, hang with friends, play board games.

Network analysis Mutual aid Civic tech Community pscyhology Open source
Currently
Reading
The 26 Words That Created the Interet
Jeff Kosseff
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"Communities have always taken care of each other. That knowledge of connection used to live in neighborhood memory." — On the Invisible Hand Athens project
Featured project
Active · Athens, GA
The Invisible Hand of Athens
A civic network graph mapping the organizations, mutual aid groups, collectives, and faith communities doing community care work in Athens, Georgia. Who refers to whom. Where resources flow. Where the gaps are.
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From the writing
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You're not playing how the game is meant to be played. But Neither was I.
March 2026 · InternetsLawBoy
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