The Ed Media Lab is led by Dr. Darnel Degand (Associate Professor at the University of California,Davis). Our projects focus on three primary research strands:

    1. Investigating how social interactions and media consumption experiences in and out of school influence social success and aspirations.
    2. Examining the creative processes, social interactions, and professional experiences of members of underrepresented groups within media production spaces and the various ways stereotypes influence their lives.
    3. Producing research-informed media and technologies for formal, nonformal, and informal learning experiences.

Affiliated Researchers

 

Graduate Students

  • Virginia Ann Jansen (2025 – present)
  • Julia Barzizza (2025 – present)
  • Hafsa Akter (2025 – present)

Undergraduate Students

  • Audrey Jacobs (2025 – present)

Affiliated Artists

 

Illustrator

  • Annika Tyson Grier (2024 – present)

Past

 

Former Undergraduate Students

  • Jenit Chadha (2024)
  • Eli Miller (2024)
  • Annika Tyson Grier (2023 – 2024)
  • Marina Moriya Nogaj (2023)
  • Arnav Cherukuthota (2023-2024)
  • Jayson Leach [UC San Diego] (2021)
  • Daniel Ritchie (2019-2021)
  • Peregrine Rolland (2019-2020)
  • Katie Nguyen (2019)
  • Natasha Khoo (2019)
  • Genessis Garcia (2019)