Continue the Conversation IG Live:
Storytelling for Gen Z and Gen Alpha
In partnership with Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls
July 12, 2022 - 9am PDT
Instagram Live
Join us for an Instagram Live conversation between Dr. Yalda T. Uhls and Gael Aitor (Teenager Therapy Podcast) about Storytelling for Gen Z and Gen Alpha, a continuation of our panel from the Scholars & Storytellers Summit 2021.
Follow the CSS Instagram page (@scholarsandstorytellers) to get notified when the conversation goes live.
About the Continue the Conversation Series:
In partnership with Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls, this Instagram Live series — Continue the Conversation: AIR Summit Learnings into Action — will lead up to the Scholars & Storytellers Summit 2022. Each episode will be hosted by Dr. Yalda T. Uhls and feature a storyteller guest. Over the course of the episode Dr. Uhls and the featured storyteller guest will deep dive into one Scholars & Storytellers Summit 2021 learning, brainstorm solutions, and leave the audience with tangible tips for creating authentically inclusive content throughout media.
Dr. Yalda T. Uhls
Yalda T. Uhls, a former senior exec at MGM and Sony, left the movie world to study child development, earning a Ph.D. in Psychology at UCLA. Uhls founded The Center for Scholars & Storytellers, an organization dedicated to bridging the work of child development researchers and youth content creators. Uhls is also an assistant adjunct professor at UCLA where she does research on how media affect the social behavior of tweens and teens and teaches a class on Digital Media and Human Development. She is an advisor for YouTube Kids and Family, The Bill and Melinda Gates Equitable Future project, Common Sense Media and the Jacobs Foundations Learning and Science Exchange and the author of the parenting book Media Moms & Digital Dads: A Fact not Fear Approach to Parenting in the Digital Age. Research conducted by Dr. Uhls has been featured in Time Magazine, the NY Times, USA Today, NPR and many others, and published in academic journals such as Developmental Psychology and Computers in Human Behavior.
Gael Aitor
Gael Aitor is the creator and host of Teenager Therapy, the largest teen-hosted mental health podcast in the world. As seen in the New York Times, Teenager Therapy is a coming-of-age story told in real-time, a culmination of mistakes and growth, and a reminder you're not alone. Gael is deeply passionate about building things that encourage genuine human connection, community, and mental wellness.