Emily Lin

Emily is a first-year Ph.D. student in the Child Development department and a research assistant on the Tangible Kindergarten project. She studies the impact of new technologies on youth civic engagement, particularly around collaborative decision-making and community action.

In 2008, Emily received her Ed.M. in the Technology, Innovation, and Education program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education as a Catherine B. Reynolds Fellow in Social Entrepreneurship. Prior to that, she spent a year volunteering for the Village Bicycle Project in Ghana, then worked for Machine Science Inc., a non-profit that provides resources for young people to learn engineering, robotics, and programming. She graduated from Harvard College in 2003 with a joint concentration in Physics and Astronomy and Astrophysics.