Karen Brennan is an Associate Professor at Harvard's Graduate School of Education (HGSE). Her research is primarily concerned with the ways in which learning environments—in and out of school, online and face-to-face—can be designed to support young people's development as computational creators. Before joining HGSE, Brennan completed her Ph.D. in Media Arts and Sciences at the MIT Media Lab, where she was a member of the team that developed the Scratch programming environment.