Areej Mawasi is a PhD Candidate in Learning, Literacies, and Technologies at Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, Arizona State University. Areej is a Fulbright Scholar, a fellow of the Interdisciplinary Enrichment Fellowship (17′-18′), and scholar at Spirit of Service Scholarship (17′-18) at ASU. Areej  earned her master’s degree in Educational Technology at ASU in 2017. She completed her bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and Education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Prior to ASU, she worked in informal education, teaching in gifted education programs, community-based settings, and online media. During her graduate studies, Areej's work has been supported by two NSF research grants, Fulbright scholarship, and ASU merit-based grants and awards.

In her interdisciplinary work, she focuses on the intersection of learning sciences, technologies and digital media, design-based methods, and critical STEM (ethics, equity, and social-political-historical dimensions of STEM). She draws on multiple paradigms in learning theory and methodologies to: (1) understand ways to design equity-oriented learning environments that help learners, educators, and researchers engage in socio-political dimensions of STEM and (2) design learning environments mediated by technology and digital media to support interactive engagement and participation of learners and educators. In her work, she uses mixed methods design-based approaches to design, implement, and understand learners behavior as they interact with artifacts (e.g., ways artifacts like technology, digital media, hands-on activities can or can not mediate learning across settings). A second focus is examining participation and engagement in learning activities through diverse lenses (e.g., ways power dynamics manifest in environments and shape learners and educators engagement in these spaces; interactive and collaborative learning). A third focus is building and strengthening research-practice partnerships with organizations through participatory and co-design methods.