Dr. Linda Charmaraman is a senior research scientist at the Wellesley Centers for Women (WCW) at Wellesley College and received her PhD in Human Development and Education from University of California Berkeley. She is director of the Youth, Media, & Wellbeing Research Lab. Her work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, Children & Screens: Institute of Digital Media and Child Development, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, among others. Linda’s research interests include social media and adolescent health, digital citizenship, methodologies to target hard-to-reach populations, and how social identities (e.g., race/ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, political) affect wellbeing. She has been surveying a cohort of over 1000 middle school students into their high school years and beyond since before the pandemic, focused on adolescent social tech use, health, wellbeing, and civic engagement. Media mentions include New York Times, Washington Post, NPR, Good Morning America, USA Today, ABC News, NBC News, Discover Magazine, The Conversation, and others. In 2023, Dr. Charmaraman provided written testimony for the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary hearing regarding Protecting Our Children Online. She was also a proud member of the task force for the 2023 American Psychological Association’s health advisory on social media use in adolescence. She is featured in a PBS Learning online toolkit series on adolescent social media use, sponsored by the New York State Education Department. Together with a youth advisory board, she co-organizes free Digital Wellbeing workshops for middle school girls from underserved backgrounds across the nation each summer (wcwonline.org/summerworkshops).