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Matt Easterday’s research focuses on technology and new civics, producing scientifically supported educational technology to create informed and engaged citizens to solve serious policy problems facing society such as poverty, climate change, and militarism. Training various types of individuals requires understanding how competent citizens analyze policy, communicate issues, and organize to make change. This necessitates designing effective educational technology to teach the knowledge, skills, and dispositions needed for citizenship. Easterday received his PhD in 2010 in Human-Computer Interaction from Carnegie Mellon University, where he also completed his MS in the same field in 2004 and a BA in Psychology and Mathematics from Reed College in 1999. He has been recognized with several awards, including the Northwestern Public Voices Fellowship in 2017 and the Northwestern Ver Steeg Graduate Advising Award in 2015.
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