Dr. Linda Charmaraman is a senior research scientist at Wellesley College and director of the Youth, Media, & Wellbeing Research Lab. Her longitudinal research on adolescent social tech use has been funded by NIH, Children & Screens, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, among others. She was co-author of APA’s (2023/2024) advisories on adolescent social media as well as AI and wellbeing (2025).