Alicia Mota
Research Assistant
Alicia graduated from the Harvard Extension School in 2025 with a Bachelor of Liberal Arts degree in psychology. For the past six years, she has worked as a maker in university settings. Alongside studying, she offers advice to organizations that wish to have strong community cohesion. Alicia also works at MIT’s Edgerton Center K-12 Outreach program, teaching groups in Greater Boston various STEM concepts through hands-on activities. She creates lessons that focus on aspects of climate change that require engineering solutions. Alicia is passionate about intersecting design, learning, and social cohesion in research and real-world applications.