Keegan Lee

Award-Winning Author and Digital Wellness Professional specializing in strategic project management, possesses excellent communication skills, organizational, and analytical capabilities. Devises innovative solutions to resolve business and technology challenges in the gaming and entertainment industry, focusing on online safety and digital well-being for children and families.

• James R. Copland & Lilian G. Copland Scholar Awarded full-tuition merit scholarship for outstanding leadership and academics at UNC-Chapel Hill
• Christopher Mead Armitage and Pauline Brooks Armitage Scholar - Awarded a fully funded educational experience to study at Oxford University for the Michaelmas Term during the Fall of 2025
• Honors Carolina Highly competitive, four-year academic program enrolling 10% of each class
• Carolina Research Scholar Awarded to pursue faculty-mentored STEM research

Discovery Education 

Educational Content Specialist 

• Advised on developmentally appropriate online safety messaging for K–12 audiences across the United States
• Presented stories and applications of digital wellness in a nationally distributed educational film examining youth and social media engagement

UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media  

Research Assistant, Family and Media Lab

• Contribute to studies on media content uses and effects on children, adolescents, and families, with an emphasis on the consequences of media messages and media use for the bodies of audience members
• Create scales, measures, and methods of analysis for surveys measuring motivations of social media use across the life span, body image on social media, self-perception, and self-monitoring behaviors

University of Virginia School of Medicine 

Research Assistant, Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences

• Write original drafts of scientific manuscripts pertaining to Prolonged Grief Disorder, patient’s levels of acceptability with clinical treatment, review of fMRI studies in the treatment and diagnosis of depression
• Undergo strategic scientific methodology for review papers such as screening articles for extraneous variables using Covidence software; identify effect sizes to distinguish ideal treatments within completed randomized trials

UNC Department of Psychology                                                              

Principal Investigator – A Comparative Study: Social Behaviors of Chimpanzees Exposed to Interactive Technology

• Conducted faculty mentored research at the North Carolina Zoo analyzing the changes in social behaviors of chimpanzees when introduced to different technologies and drawing parallels to human infants
• Observed nonverbal communication and recorded behaviors; identified frequency of social behaviors in the presence of technology using Zoomonitor software for ethogram recording and analysis

Winston Center for Technology Use & Psychological Development  

Research Assistant

• Facilitated research study with participants working with the eye-tracking technology (i.e., eye-tracking glasses)
• Orchestrated video conferencing setup, and conducted 30+ Zoom interviews with participants
• Utilized Tobii software technology to code and analyze participant data to determine the frequency of their self-

• Lee, K., Ghandour, B.M. (October 2022) 60 Days of Disconnect: Cary Press Publishing. (Hardcover and Digital format available).
• Srivastava, T., Lee, K., Ehrenkranz, R., Cozzolino, P. J., Wise, F. A., Burns, M., McCormick, T., Yaden, D., Agrawal, M., & Penberthy, J. K. (2025). The efficacy of psychotherapeutic interventions for prolonged grief disorder: A systematic review. Journal of Affective Disorders, 380, 561575. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2025.03.173
• Adebukola, T., Gerry S., Lee, K., Ohakamma, I., Shedeed, M., Khedr, M., Menjivar, J., Davis, K (2024, December 18). Breaking the algorithm: Redesigning social media for youth wellbeing. Mental Health America.
• Menjivar, J., Perry, K., Lee, K., Erley, A., Bullock Mariscal, C., Chao, D., Yang, R., Andrastek, W., Jean Charles, J. (2024, November). Past lessons, future insights, an intergenerational approach to youth mental health. 2024 Mental Health America Annual Report, Mental Health America.
• Lee, K., Cai, J. (2024, October). Research: The Value of In-Person Connection and Communication. The National School Boards Association Journal, vol. 211, no. 1, pp. 4243.

• Lee, K. (2025, November). Digital Wellness: Technology, Psychology, and the Next Generations. The Autumn Conference of the Association of Swiss Private Schools. The Federal Palace, Bern, Switzerland
• Lee, K. (2025, December). Sleeping with Algorithms: Psychological Dimensions of Artificial Intelligence. Said Business School, University of Oxford, Oxford, England.
• Lee, K. (2025, August). The Power of Parenting: A Digital Wellness Perspective. The Leysin American School in Switzerland, Leysin Switzerland
• Smithing, A., Wettstein, A., Lee, K. Sillerova, S., Poensgen, G. (2025, April). From anxiety to resilience: strengthening the mental health of young persons in the digital era. The United Nations, Economic Forum, The United Nations Headquarters, New York, NY.
• Martinson, J., Moe, B., Lee, K., Lowenthal, J., Benarroch, J. (2024, November). Reimagining the social media landscape for a healthier digital generation. Web Summit: The Worlds Largest Technology Event, Lisbon, Portugal.

• "People Magazine’s" 2024 Selection of “Girls Changing the World”
• "Jubilee Foundation" Award for Excellence in Leadership Achievement: Technology and Social Behavior
• "Mental Health America", Excellence in Leadership Award, Mental Health Policy