Annie Margaret
Assistant Teaching Professor • STORYTELLING • PSYCHOTECHNOLOGIES • ATTENTION ACTIVISM
ATLAS Institute
annie@colorado.edu
303­-735-­7216

Office Hours: Email for appointments -Ìýannie@colorado.edu. Mon/Weds mornings have best availability.ÌýÌý

Annie is an educator, researcher, and human enthusiast motivated by questions at the intersections of mental health, technology, addictive design, tribalism, the attention economy and mindfulness. Her teaching and research address psychotechnologies and cognitive states that counteract the negative impact of social media on our mental health and wellbeing. She cultivates contemplative practices and classroom experiences to foster skills critical for human thriving in the rapidly growing attention economy – empathy, sovereignty, metacognition, embodied wisdom, self-inquiryÌýand interpersonal communication. Ìý

She received her PhD in cell and molecular biology from Northwestern University in 2014, and balances this rigorous training in the scientific method with the empiricism of participatory knowledge. She enjoys working with companies to develop strong cultures of empathy through personalized feedback and facilitates workshops empowering creative technologists to find their voice and personal story.Ìý

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Publications

Denise Powell,ÌýPeterÌýGyory,ÌýRicarose Roque, andÌýAnnie Bruns.Ìý2018.Ìý. InÌýProceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Interaction Design and Children,Ìý(IDCÌý'18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 575-580. DOI:ÌýÌý(Trondheim, Norway, June 19-22, 2018).

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In the news

Teenage woman holding her cell phone
Annie Margaret interviewed about the role of social media in teen self esteem

Aug. 5, 2022

Watch Teaching Assistant Professor Annie Margaret talk about social media's role in teen self esteem in this webinar by Forward Together, an organization that develops resources for parent-to-youth and youth-to-youth communication and relationship building.

Winners of Femal Founder's Night on a stage.
Chembotix and Digital Wellness win awards at NVC Female Founders Prize Night

March 22, 2022

​​Kailey Shara, an ATLAS PhD student and a member of the Emergent Nanomaterials Lab, and her team, won third place and $1,000 for Chembotix robotic automation platform. Annie Margaret, teaching assistant professor with the ATLAS Institute, and her team, placed fourth with Digital Wellness x NoSo November.

Annie Margaret being interviewed by Denver Ch. 7 at the ATLAS Institute
Denver Channel 7 discusses the impact of social media on teens' mental health with Annie Margaret

Jan. 4, 2022

"It's not enough to tell young people to put their phones down," says Annie Margaret, an ATLAS teaching assistant professor who investigates ways to counteract the negative impact of social media on the mental health of teens. In a recent interview with Denver Channel 7 News, she talked about interventions for teens she's developing for a program to be launched over the 2022 summer break.

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