Andrés Monroy-Hernández

Andrés Monroy-Hernández is a Mexican social computing researcher living in the United States. His work focuses on the design and study of social media systems that support collaboration for creative expression and civic engagement. Andrés holds a PhD and a Masters from the MIT Media Lab, and a Bachelor’s from Tec de Monterrey in Mexico. As part of his work at MIT, he created the Scratch Online Community, a website where millions of children create, share, and remix animations and video games. His work has been featured in the New York Times, CNN, and Wired, and has been awarded at Ars Electronica and the MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Competition. In 2012, he was named one of Boston’s Emerging Leaders by the Boston Business Journal.

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Disclaimer: Andrés currently works at Microsoft Research and is affiliated with Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, however, all his opinions are his own.

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