Jaleesa Trapp
PhD student and graduate research assistant at the MIT Media Lab
Jaleesa Trapp is a PhD student and graduate research assistant at the MIT Media Lab in the Lifelong Kindergarten research group. Her research explores the different ways youth from marginalized backgrounds interact with technology, in an effort to design playful technologies with and for them. Prior to graduate school, Jaleesa was the Coordinator at the Computer Clubhouse in Tacoma, WA, and a high school computer science teacher at SAMI and IDEA. She is also an organizer with the Tacoma Action Collective where she's helped bring awareness to issues such as health disparities, gun violence, housing inequalities, inequity in education, and other issues that impact marginalized people in the community. Jaleesa received her bachelor's degree from the University of Washington in HCDE with a concentration in HCI.
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