About Carrie James, Daniel T. Gruner, Ashley Lee, & Margaret Mullen

Author's note: Except for the first author, author order is alphabetical.

Carrie James is a Principal Investigator at Harvard’s Project Zero and a Lecturer on Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Her research explores young people’s digital, moral, and civic lives. With Howard Gardner, Carrie co-directs the Good Participation project, a study of how youth “do civics” in the digital age. Carrie is also co-director of Out of Eden Learn, a cross-cultural online community for youth and educational companion to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Paul Salopek’s epic Out of Eden walk. Her publications include Disconnected: Youth, New Media, and the Ethics Gap (The MIT Press, 2014). Carrie has an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Sociology from New York University.

Daniel T. Gruner is a Ph.D. candidate in Psychology with a concentration in Positive Developmental Psychology at Claremont Graduate University. He is a research associate in the Quality of Life Research Center at Claremont, and research assistant at Harvard Project Zero. Daniel’s research applies systematic phenomenology to synthesize two overarching themes. The first falls at the intersection of morality, ethics, and the broader sociopolitical institutions that shape daily human experience, and the second explores how individual interests, strengths, and abilities are cultivated among contemporary youth.

Ashley Lee is a doctoral candidate at Harvard Graduate School of Education. Her current research focuses on the dynamics of youth online political discourses, self-expression and meaning-making in different political and social contexts. Her research interests include computer-mediated communication and learning, self-construction and social networks, information ethics, and human-computer interaction. She holds a B.S. in computer science from Stanford University's School of Engineering.

Margaret Mullen is a Senior Research Specialist on the Good Participation Project, and the Educating for Participatory Politics Project at Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Her research interests include human development through the life span, with a focus on moral and ethical thinking, decisions, and action.