Katie Davis

Katie Davis is a professor and Interim Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs at the University of Washington, where she co-directs the Center for Digital Youth. She researches how digital technologies affect young people’s learning, development, and well-being. Davis holds two master’s degrees and a doctorate in Human Development and Education from Harvard Graduate School of Education, and previously worked as a research scientist at Harvard Project Zero.

She is the coauthor, with Cecilia Aragon, of Writers in the Secret Garden: Fanfiction, Youth, and New Forms of Mentoring (MIT Press, 2019). Davis has also coauthored The App Generation: How Youth Navigate Identity, Intimacy, and Imagination in a Digital World with Howard Gardner and authored Technology’s Child: Digital Media’s Role in the Ages and Stages of Growing Up.