Meet the Team

Anna Fisher, PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University

Research Interests: Cognitive Development; Development of Attention; Learning Science

Shawn Alfonso Wells, PhD

Instructor, Department of Africana Studies, University of Pittsburgh

Area of Specialization: Black consciousness; race relations; intersections of sex, race, and class

Rachel Hopkins, University of Pittsburgh '20

Project Manager, Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University

Research Interests: Urban Education; Youth Critical Consciousness; School- and Work-based Race & Gender Affinity Spaces

Post-doctoral researcher, Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University

Research Interests: Experience-dependent changes in children's knowledge; Cognitive processes; Learning; Research-practice partnership

Emma Gurchiek

Research Assistant, Post- Bacc, University of Pittsburgh.

Research Interests: Cognitive Control, Attention, and Sports Neuroscience

Christine Wu, Carnegie Mellon University '20

Research Assistant, Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University

Research Interests: Educational design, learning in children

Sonja Hunter, MA

Lab Manager, Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University

Research Interests: Development of executive functions & social cognition

Kate Zhao

Research Assistant, Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University

Research Interest: Education, Ed- tech

Chris Palaguachi

Doctoral Student, Department of Educational Psychology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Research Interests: AI, Human Computer Interaction, Educational Design/Tools, Learning Analytics, STEM Learning, Embodied Learning, Equity & Accessibility in Education

Amanda Lee

Research Assistant, Department of Psychology, Virginia Tech

Research Interests: Early social/communicative development and health services in underserved communities.

Lalithashruthi Rajaraman

Research Assistant, Psychology Department, CMU

Research Interests: Learning and Perception, Biological Foundations of Behavior, Cognitive Neuroscience

Morgan Boyd

Research Assistant, Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University

Research Interests: I want to understand how children learn the most effectively through media such as books and television. Specifically, I'm focused on studying children's attention-related processes and reading comprehension.