Amanda Lenhart, MA

Amanda Lenhart is a Senior Fellow at the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at the Sesame Workshop and a long-time mixed methods researcher who has spent the bulk of her career studying how children and families use and think about networked technologies. Previously, Amanda served as the Head of Research at Common Sense Media, where she led research on youth mental health and social media, the role of smartphones and generative AI in the daily lives of adolescents. She started her career at the Pew Research Center, helping to found the Internet team where she pioneered and led their research on teens and families for 16 years. Amanda currently serves on the Technical Advisory Panel to the American Academy of Pediatrics Center on Social Media and Youth Mental Health, and as an advisor to the Adolescent Health and Wellness Advisory Panel Project at Stanford University.

Funding/Conflicts of Interest: Amanda Lenhart has nothing to disclose.