Honors, Boards and Advisor

Boards and Advisor

• Advisor, Common Sense Media LA Council (2019-present)
• Advisor (paid), Kids and Family, YouTube, (2019 – present)
• Advisor, Bill and Melinda Gates Equitable Futures Project
• Advisor, The Learning Sciences Exchange (LSX) Fellowship (2017 – present)
• Working Group – SRCD/ Jacobs foundation – Development in the Digital Age (2018- present)
• Advisor (paid), Dream Gap, Barbie (2019 – 2020)
• Advisor, Center for Adolescence, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia  (2016- 2020)
• Senior Advisor, Common Sense Media (2018- 2019)
• Board of Trustees, Westside Neighborhood School (2015-2018)
• Leadership Council, UCLA’s Psychology in Action (2013- 2018)

Honors and Recognition

• Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation (2015). SRCD is the premier organization for child development psychological research. This national award is given to only 5 PhD students from across the US.
• SRCD Special Topics Organizing Committee: 2016, Media and Technology; 2018, Character Development 
• Invited Participant Well Being Convening, Susan Crown Exhange
• Invited Participant, National Academy of Sciences Keck Futures Initiative, 2012, 2017
• Invited Participant, NIH/ NIDA Workshop on Social Media, 2017
• Heroes of 2015, 7 People who Made a Difference, Deseret News
• Dena Chertoff Graduate Service Award, UCLA
• Millard Madsen Award for Distinguished Dissertation in Developmental Psychology
• Psychology in Action Award, UCLA Co-President, Psychology in Action, UCLA
• Summer Research Mentorship, UCLA
• Honorable Mention, NSF Graduate Fellowship
• Top 100 People in Hollywood, Fade-In Magazine