Reflection on Midwest Youth Wellness Initiative on Technology July 2023

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Fridarose Hamad, “Reflection on Midwest Youth Wellness Initiative on Technology July 2023”
Mentor: Linnea Laestadius, Public Health
Poster #96

The Youth Advisory Board (YAB) for the Midwest Youth Wellness Initiative on Technology (MYWIT) in July 2023 met with four high school students of color from Milwaukee and Ann Arbor. This group met online over Zoom synchronously over a one-week period with facilitation from a team of UWM and MSU faculty and students. These advisors were asked to formulate their own research topic related to technology in their lives. They specifically chose to focus on how minority youth navigate social media algorithms to meet their needs (social and consumer needs). From this, these four advisors designed a research protocol that could be implemented in the future. Feedback gathered from this weeklong intensive can be used to advocate for more engagement with adolescents in the research process and serve to assist researchers with facilitating adolescent-led research.