Yasmin B. Kafai

Yasmin B. Kafai is the Lori and Michael Milken President’s Distinguished Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education, with a secondary appointment in Computer and Information Science. She earned a Diplompsychologie degree from Technische Universität Berlin and an Ed.D. from Harvard University, where she worked with Seymour Papert at the MIT Media Laboratory. She has been a member of the Penn faculty since 2008.

Kafai’s research focuses on learning, coding, computer games, digital media, constructionism, and making. Her books include Minds in Play: Computer Game Design as a Context for Children’s Learning, Connected Code: Why Children Need to Learn Programming, and Designing Constructionist Futures: The Art, Theory, and Practice of Learning Designs, which she co-edited.