Alexa is a Research Associate on the Youth and Media team at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. Prior to this position, she worked at the Personal Robotics Group at the MIT Media Lab. A Boston native, Alexa received her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Boston College in 2012 and went on to receive two Master’s degrees. She completed a Master of Education in Human Development and Psychology from Harvard’s Graduate School of Education in 2013 and a Master of Arts in Applied Developmental and Educational Psychology from Boston College’s Lynch School of Education in 2015. On the Youth and Media team, Alexa focuses on areas such as the skills youth need to thrive in our increasingly digital world; risks to online safety, including cyberbullying; and the design of educational tools about the digital environment that can be used across varying contexts of learning and teaching.