sam rabiyah

Sam is a journalist and multidisciplinary technologist based in NYC. He works at the intersection of investigative reporting, counter-mapping, data visualization, and oral history to make information more actionable to movement-based organizers and the public.

He was lead researcher for Patterns of Life, an installation at the 2024-25 Cooper Hewitt Museum Triennial, where he worked in forensic spatial analysis and open-source investigation to visualize stories of domicide from Iraq, Syria, and Gaza. As an artist resident at Eyebeam's Democracy Machine, he is building a digital counter-mapping archive of the Euphrates River alongside a collective of photographers and artists from the region.

He is currently an investigative technologies fellow at Documented, a contributing editor at THE CITY, and a dedicated artist mentor at the New Museum's NEW INC program. He teaches cartography, design, and urban studies at New York University.

projects

Worst Evictors

Patterns of Life: Cooper Hewitt Museum

The SLAPP Back Initiative

Meet Your Mayor

A Catalog of Gaza’s Loss: The Nation

Who Owns What

Destabilization Map

Eviction Free NY

Know Your District

Making My Force and My Face Known

Kids Who Lost Parents to COVID, In Their Own Words

Subway Quiz

Hazard NYC

Corporatization of NYC Real Estate

Election Simulator

"Mom-and-Pop" Landlord Report

writing

Trans Prisoners Allege Targeted Harassment by Supervisor at Nation’s Worst-Ranked Facility

More than 60,000 Rent-Stabilized Apartments Are Now Vacant — and Tenant Advocates Say Landlords Are Holding Them for ‘Ransom’

In NYC Mayoral Primary, Mamdani Beat Cuomo in Immigrant Neighborhoods by Nearly 7 Points

Tenants Team Up to Target Voucher-Snubbing Landlords

‘Coliving’ Landlords Turned $800 Rent-Stabilized Apartments into $7,000 Suites. Now Tenants Are Pushing Back.

City Council Passes Bill Enabling Tenants to Report Vacant Apartments

Airbnb’s Sidelined in NYC. That Probably Won’t Stop Illegal Short-Term Rentals.

Apartments Vanish From New York’s Rent Regulation System and Questions Linger About How

Less Than 10% of Tenants Facing Eviction Actually Got a Lawyer Last Month, Undermining ‘Right to Counsel’ Law

In Near-Daily Protests, Tenants Demand a Stop to Rent-Stabilized Apartment Vacancies

Tenants Take Over Bronx and Brooklyn Housing Courts, Protesting Lack of Lawyers

Tenants’ Friday Night Plans: Testifying at Curiously Timed City Eviction Lawyer Hearing

Counter-mapping Evictions in the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City

talks