Alexander Cho is a media scholar, digital design researcher, critical theorist, and pop culture geek. His research combines critical race theory, queer theory, design thinking, and ethnography to explore how marginalized populations use social media as a tool for self-expression and social change and explores how social media contain values and power structures built into their design. He was previously a University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Informatics at UC Irvine. In addition to his research and teaching, Professor Cho also regularly engages in community-oriented scholarship and policy/advocacy work, such as his lead-authored white paper for UNICEF on youth digital civic engagement practices as well as practitioner-oriented thought leadership around youth and digital media in venues such as the Parenting for a Digital Future initiative and the Connected Learning Alliance.