Laurel Felt
felt [at] usc [dot] edu
Laurel J. Felt is a doctoral student of communication at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, where she has worked with the Annenberg Scenarios Lab, the Transforming Cancer: Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behavior Through Narrative Initiative, and Henry Jenkins’s Participatory Learning and Culture Lab. She earned her M.A. in Child Development from Tufts University and B.S. in Education and Social Policy from Northwestern University. Her research investigates leveraging multimedia to support children's healthy development, particularly as it relates to social and emotional skills, media literacy, and public health. She has co-authored several articles and research reports examining entertainment-education and mass media representations of gender and global health, and has consulted with the BBC World Service Trust, Common Sense Media, Nickelodeon Kids and Family Research Group, Hollywood, Health & Society, and RFK Community Schools. With Sénégal-based non-profit le Réseau African d'Education pour la Santé (RAES), she is collaboratively designing, piloting, and sharing participatory, skills-rich, inquiry-based pedagogy for enhancing individuals’ and communities’ health and communicative capacities.