Section Six • Research Team

The Project Team

Meet the team! We are all members of Wellesley's Laboratory for Ethics and Equity in Digital Technology (LEED). Our research and lab has been supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation since 2023.

Faculty Principal Investigators

Eni Mustafaraj (Computer Science)
Co-Principal Investigator
Oversaw survey design and administration, provided guidance on quantitative and qualitative analysis, performed automated qualitative analysis with Gemini, oversaw the production of the online version (this website).
Julie Walsh (Philosophy)
Co-Principal Investigator
Oversaw survey design and administration, provided advice on the theoretical framing of the report as well as feedback on the analysis results and report structure, and edited several drafts of the report.

Student Research Assistants

Elizabeth Murno '26
Lead Writer
Co-designed the survey questions, participated in qualitative data analysis, served as human judge for Gemini coding, performed focus groups, and conceptualized and wrote the main report.
Alison Ingalls '27
Lead Analyst
Co-designed the survey questions, cleaned and merged survey data, generated charts for all questions, performed focus groups, performed the LCA modeling and other correlation and statistical significance tests.
Isabelle Whetsel '27
Project Manager
In charge of outreach operations for the survey delivery, interfaced with survey participants to deliver gift cards, performed several rounds of qualitative data analysis.

Acknowledgements

LEED Research Lab Collaborators

We are deeply grateful to the researchers and members of the LEED Research Lab, who dedicated time to trial pilots, refine survey questions, and provide invaluable feedback on the iterative process of designing the survey and writing the report.

To Our Student Participants

This report would not be possible without the honest perspectives of the 238 Wellesley College students who generously took the time to fill out the survey and share their opinions and concerns.

GenAI Disclosure

Gemini (provided through Wellesley College's agreement with Google) was used for computer programming support in performing data analysis and generating visualizations. It was also used to iteratively generate the HTML/CSS/JS code for the website structure and organization, based on the textual content of the report. Additionally, Gemini used in the qualitative analysis as explained in the Introduction & Methodology section, under "Qualitative Analysis". The report's content was written by the authors and Gemini was used in some sections for editing. Every page of this website was reviewed by several members of our team to ensure accuracy and legibility. We take full responsibility for all content presented here.