Megan Cuzzolino (she/her) is a researcher and educator with expertise in cognition and development, instructional design, and public engagement with science. As the Project Director of the Next Level Lab, she provides strategic, intellectual, and operational leadership for the lab’s research and partnerships. Her scholarship investigates the role of transformative emotions in learning and motivation across diverse contexts, including a multi-year, cross-disciplinary project on the role of awe in workplace settings. She is also a contributing member of the Causal Cognition in a Complex World lab. Earlier in her career, Megan served as a Science Education Analyst at the National Science Foundation and taught and developed science curricula for elementary and middle school students. She holds an Ed.D. and an Ed.M. in Human Development from HGSE and an A.B. in Psychology from Harvard College.