Amber Maria Levinson is a Research Associate at Stanford Graduate School of Education as part of the TELOS Initiative (Technology for Equity in Learning Opportunities). Her recent research examines how Hispanic-Latino immigrant families use media and opportunities for technology to support intergenerational language learning, and previously she contributed to ethnographic work on youth as media producers as part of the Digital Youth Network.  Amber earned a Ph.D. in Education at Stanford in the Learning Sciences and Technology Design program and was a Post-Doctoral Scholar with the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop. She is also leads design experiences and coaches design teams particularly in the area of serving youth, schools, and families. Amber began her career as a classroom teacher. Her experience also includes six years in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where she helped establish Cinema Nosso, a media arts program for youth from the city’s poorest areas, and also worked as a writer and associate producer on films for the BBC, National Geographic and others. She has authored multiple publications in the field of technology and learning, with recent chapters in Children and Families in the Digital Age and The Digital Youth Network: Cultivating Digital Citizenship in Urban Communities.