Linda Charmaraman, PhD

Dr. Linda Charmaraman is a Senior Research Scientist at Wellesley Centers for Women at Wellesley College. She received her PhD in Human Development and Education from UC Berkeley and is founder/director of the Youth, Media, and Wellbeing Research Lab. Her longitudinal work on adolescent social technology use and parental media monitoring has been funded by NIH, Children and Screens, and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, among others. She was co-author of the APA’s advisory on adolescent social media use. Together with a youth advisory board, she co-organizes free Digital Wellbeing workshops for middle school girls and allies from underserved backgrounds (wcwonline.org/summerworkshops).

Funding/Conflicts of Interest: Financial support for the data collection, analysis, and dissemination of work presented was from NICHD Grant R15HD094281-01. Dr. Linda Charmaraman’s employer has received advisory consulting fees from Meta. She has received personal fees for advisory consulting from Google, Common Sense Media, Jed Foundation, Education Development Center, and sponsored travel from the American Psychological Association.

None of the funders or any consulting affiliations had any input in the conceptualization, data analysis, or interpretations of the results.