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Boston, MA — Built in community

The work is finding where unjust systems can be interrupted — and building the tools to do it.

I'm Asia Lakay Grady — a Black liberation technologist, cooperative economist, documentary filmmaker, and practitioner-theorist. I build civic infrastructure rooted in Liberation Logic: a framework for mapping institutional power, identifying leverage points, and building toward cooperative ownership as the structural answer.

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framework

Liberation Logic

A tool for applying pressure
where it actually changes things.

Liberation Logic is not a description of power — it's an instrument for interrupting it. Adapted from cascade control theory, informed by Donella Meadows' leverage points concept, and rooted in a materialist feminist tradition that asks whose labor has been made invisible and why, it identifies where systems can be changed rather than just critiqued.

Applied to low-income housing quality standards, it produces verification suppression theory. Applied to energy, it produces Solar Roots Co-op. Applied to civic information, it produces the Policy Shift Tracker. Applied to capital, it produces CommonGround. The framework is the same. The domain changes.

01 · Diagnose
Who is made invisible here?
Whose labor, knowledge, and harm is not being counted in the current accounting of this system — and is the invisibility by omission or by design?
02 · Map
How is the invisibility maintained?
What are the nested feedback loops — institutional, cultural, neurological — that reproduce the exclusion and make it feel natural rather than constructed?
03 · Locate
Where are the leverage points?
Following Meadows: where in the system can a small, precise intervention produce disproportionate change? Numbers are at the bottom. Paradigms are at the top.
04 · Build
What does cooperative ownership make possible here?
What form of democratic control would shift who benefits from the system's outputs — and what tool, platform, or organization makes that shift concrete?
Intellectual lineage
Adapted from cascade control theory · Donella Meadows' leverage points in a system · Starhawk's power-over / power-with · Deboleena Roy's materialist feminism · Robert Anton Wilson's nested circuit model · Doris Lessing's deep-time frame · Toni Morrison, Ralph Ellison, Richard Wright · a Boston Black Baptist church with roots in the abolitionist movement and the Underground Railroad — the tradition that formed me before I had words for what it was.
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Current Research

My honors paper, Rational Criminality: Housing Quality, Chronic Disease, and the Case for Community-Controlled Weatherization, introduces verification suppression as an original theoretical contribution — the mechanism by which institutions suppress documentation of harm to avoid accountability, extending Becker's rational criminal model into housing and environmental justice. Fall 2026: continuing the research through a narrower environmental science lens, with formal honors program submission this semester.

projects

Deployed Infrastructure

Tools that ship.

Six years of building civic and cooperative technology — without a big tech credential and without waiting for permission. Everything below is deployed, documented, and real.

Civic Technology · Career Case Study
FoundationPlanner
Federal grant discovery and scoring pipeline. Reads grant databases, scores opportunities against organizational profile, surfaces the highest-leverage funding targets. Built as a public demonstration of applied AI in civic infrastructure — the code is open, the demo is live, the scoring logic is documented.
Cloudflare Workers · D1 · Pages · React · AI scoring layer
Live demo → GitHub →
Civic Tech · Community Platform
Front Porch Economics
Community platform for mission-driven builders. Full auth stack: email identity, SMS PIN via Twilio, JWT session cookies. The infrastructure that Liberation Logic runs on.
Workers · D1 · Pages · Twilio SMS auth
Cooperative Capital
CommonGround
Cooperative capital marketplace with quadratic funding. Democratic resource allocation as infrastructure — the math works, the ownership model is the point.
Cloudflare Pages · Quadratic funding logic
Civic Technology · Liberation Logic Applied
Policy Shift Tracker
Pulls directly from the Federal Register to surface policy shifts in real time — search, browse, and subscribe to alerts. Making federal policy movement legible to communities that are affected before they're consulted.
Cloudflare Pages · Federal Register API
Live →
Cooperative Energy · Board Seat
Solar Roots Co-op
Community energy education, food sovereignty, and solar workforce training. I hold a board seat. Active MassCEC Equity Workforce Planning Grant target (up to $50K). Cooperative economics in practice, not just theory.
solarroot.org · EIN active · board governance
solarroot.org →
Documentary · In Production
Uninhabitable
Four-act documentary on housing displacement and institutional accountability. The empirical case for verification suppression theory. Field footage in production.
Documentary production · field footage · Liberation Logic applied
practice lanes

Practice

Four lanes, one framework.

The work takes different forms — software, documentary, on-camera, consulting — but it runs on the same underlying logic. Liberation Logic is what connects the code to the camera to the co-op board seat to the fellowship application.

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Civic Software
Full-stack civic and cooperative infrastructure on the Cloudflare edge — Workers, D1, Pages, React. From prototype to deployed product, with AI integrated end to end. Open source where the community benefits from transparency.
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Documentary Media
Social-impact storytelling from concept to delivery — field production, edit, AI-assisted post. Current work: Uninhabitable (housing displacement) and ongoing geopolitical media for Perspective 33. Training as a Neo Soul recording artist means the sonic dimension is always present.
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On-Camera & Voice
Hosting, narration, and voice work — on camera and on mic. A background as a Neo Soul recording artist and producer means the delivery is trained, warm, and precise. Available for presenting, moderating, podcast and radio formats, and narration.
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Research & Advisory
Consulting grounded in lived practice: cooperative economics and community-owned models, AI adoption for small teams and mission-driven organizations, systems navigation for caregivers and families managing complex institutions. Engagements shaped to your situation.
now

Currently

What's active right now.

Academic
Honors Program — RCC, Fall 2026
Continuing Rational Criminality research this semester through a narrower environmental science lens — formal honors program submission in progress. Verification suppression as original theory. The framework the institution didn't hand me is the one I'm submitting.
Cooperative
Solar Roots Co-op Board
Active board seat. MassCEC Equity Workforce Planning Grant in progress (up to $50K). Cooperative economics moving from theory to governance practice.
Technical
Front Porch Economics Auth
SMS PIN auth via Twilio, JWT sessions, D1 schema. The community platform's full auth stack in active development.
Documentary
Uninhabitable — In Production
Housing displacement documentary. Four-act structure. Field footage in progress. The empirical case for verification suppression made visible.
Learning
Cooperative Economics Literature
Practice (Solar Roots, CommonGround) came before the theoretical reading. Closing that gap now. This thread is live and growing.
Civic Tech
Policy Shift Tracker — Live
Federal Register policy monitoring tool. Deployed on Cloudflare Pages. Real-time search, browse, and alert subscription. Liberation Logic applied to federal information access.
updates
contact

Contact

Tell me what you're building and what you need.

I follow up on every inquiry. Engagements range from one-time advisory sessions to ongoing partnerships. If the work connects to Liberation Logic — cooperative economics, civic technology, community media, systems navigation — I want to hear from it.

Civic software development and deployment
Documentary production and social-impact media
On-camera hosting, narration, and podcast
Cooperative economics and AI adoption advisory
Fellowship, residency, and research partnerships

Or email directly: asialakaygrady@gmail.com