Dr. Avriel Epps (she/they) is a computational social scientist and a PhD candidate in Human Development at Harvard. Her work, supported by The Ford Foundation, The MacArthur Foundation, and the National Center on Race and Digital Justice, delves into how bias in predictive technologies affects adolescent racial, gender, and sociopolitical identity development. As an educator, she has taught and designed courses on subjects like Digital Privacy, Data Science Ethics, and Adolescent Development. Avriel also co-leads AI4Abolition, an organization dedicated to increasing AI literacy and building open-source AI tools for marginalized communities. Her scholarship has not only appeared in academic journals and handbooks but has also reached wider audiences through publications like The Atlantic and the Emmy nominated PBS documentary "TikTok, Boom."