Dr. Beck Tench (she/her) has deep and abiding curiosities about how to live well in a radically connected world. She is a Principal Investigator at Project Zero, where she serves as a senior researcher, designer, and co-leader of the IMAGINE AI portfolio of work at the Center for Digital Thriving. Her research explores how people find hope and digital agency, individually and collectively. Beck also teaches at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Beck earned her Ph.D. in Information Science at the University of Washington, where her dissertation focused on protecting and restoring attention. Before returning to school, she was an exhibit designer in science museums. She trained as a designer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and spent her pre-academic career helping museums, libraries, and non-profits embrace risk-taking, creativity, and change through technology and personal space-making. Her work from that time was mentioned in the New York Times, National Public Radio, Scientific American, and several books and blogs.