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.