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Maja Anderson is a Visiting Lecturer at Cornell University, specializing in Moral Psychology Action. With experience teaching at Tompkins Cortland Community College, her focus extends to Field Production Digital Media, Portfolio Development, and Digital Storytelling. Maja also teaches a graduate course titled Storytelling Media: Experience, Making, and AI Data at Radford University. She brings a fifteen-year history at Cornell, managing interdisciplinary community-engaged programs including the Milstein Program in Technology and Humanity and the Laidlaw Program in Leadership Research. Currently serving as the Student Development Project Manager at Cornell's David M. Einhorn Center for Community Engagement, she oversees the redesign of the center's student development and student-run peer-mentorship programs, notably the Pre-Orientation Service Trip (POST). This community-engaged program immerses incoming first-year students in service-learning experiences with local partners. Maja's research interests focus on human-centered design, community-engaged learning, creative assessment practices, and fostering intrinsic motivation and student agency in complex learning environments. She examines how innovative pedagogical approaches can reshape educational processes, particularly in navigating the complexities of AI-mediated learning landscapes.
Department of Architecture