Dharma Lewis

Dharma is a third-year PhD student interested in metacognition, self-regulated learning, mindfulness, and individual differences in educational settings. Specifically, she studies interventions for metacognitive awareness of focus during learning, near-peer tutoring programs in undergraduate STEM, and improving readability of open-source STEM textbooks. At UCSB, she completed her BS in Biopsychology, where she served as Tutor, Transfer Peer Mentor, and META Lab Manager. She is a first-generation scholar who is passionate about empowering learners of all experiences and backgrounds. Outside of the lab, you can find her dancing or hanging on some aerial silks.