Angela Booker is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication currently studying the ways youth, families, and schools make use of media 
and technology for participation, learning and community development. She is particularly concerned with addressing barriers that diminish access to public participation among underrepresented and disenfranchised communities. She uses ethnographic, qualitative and design-based research methods to examine typical and emerging practices where youth and adults work together (and at times, in conflict). In addition she draws on design-based research methods in collaborative ways that involve youth, community partners, educators, undergraduates, and scholars. Collaborations with youth, community partners, educators and scholars form the basis of her work. She holds a PhD in Learning Sciences and Technology Design from Stanford University. In 2013, she received the Jan Hawkins Award for Early Career Contributions to Humanistic Research and Scholarship in Learning Technologies.