Dr. Walker is a learning scientist that researches emerging technologies in biology and computer sciences and their use in middle and high school education. He draws on perspectives in active learning, design, and literacy to study how teachers and students respond to modern STEM learning experiences.

• Ph D in Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education, University of Pennsylvania (2019)
• MS in Engineering Biotechnologies, University of Pennsylvania (2012)
• BS in Molecular Biology/English Literature, University of Miami (2005)

• Computing in Data Science or Data in Computer Science? Association of Computing Machinary (in press), Zarek Drozda, Justice T. Walker, Kathi Fisler, David Weintrop.
• Sandbox Data Science: Culturally Relevant K-12 Computing CSEngageEdu: Association of Computing Machinary (2024), Justice T. Walker, Amanda Barany, Alex Acquah, Sayed Reza, Karen Del Rio Guzman, Michael Johnson, Omar Badreddin, Alan Barrera.
• Biodesign: A Frame for BioMaking to Learn (2023), Justice T. Walker, Alan Barrera, Maria Perez, Alex Acquah, Veena Vijakumar, Daniel Grushkin.
• Coding Like a Data Miner: A Sandbox Approach To Computing-Based Data Science for High School Student Learning IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (2023), Justice T. Walker, Amanda Barany, Alex Acquah, Sayed Reza, Alan Barrera, Karen Del Rio Guzman, Michael Johnson.
• Towards the Design of a Culturally Relevant Curriculum for Equitable, Data Mining-based CS Education International Society of the Learning Sciences (2023), Amanda Barany, Sayed Reza, Michael Johnson, Alan Barrera, Omar B. Badreddin, Crystal Fuentes, Justice T. Walker.
• Toward Defining and Assessing Creativity in Sandbox Games Creativity Research Journal (2023), Sayedahmad Rahimi, Justice T. Walker, Lin-Lin Lipsmeyer, Jinnie Shin.
• Community laboratories in the United States: BioMakerspaces for life science learning Public Understanding of Science (2022), Justice T. Walker, Lydia Stamato, Nisa Asgarali-Hoffman, Foad Hamidi, Lisa Scheifele.
• Global Community Bio Summit 5.0 Proceedings Global Community Bio Summit (2022), Justice T. Walker, Jessica McGrath, Alix Guilbert, Vittorio Milone, Eduardo Padilha, Anne Hu, Danny Chan, Jan-Maarten Luursema, Guenter Seyfried, Maria Chavez, David S. Kong.
• Critical Biomaking: Socioscientific Issues as Contexts for Life Science Maker Education International Conference of the Learning Sciences (2022), Justice T. Walker, Alan Barrera, Rocio Sepulveda, Maria Perez.
• In Pursuit of Creativity in Minecraft: A Mixed-Method Approach International Society of the Learning Sciences (2022), Seyedahmad Rahimi, Justice T. Walker, Lin Lin.
• Twenty Things to Make with Biology (2021), Yasmin Kafai, Justice T. Walker.
• Perspectives on Scales, Contexts and Directionality of Collaborations in and around Virtual Worlds and Video Games International Society of the Learning Sciences (2021), Debbie Fields, Yasmin Kafai, Earl Aguilera, Stefan Slater, Justice T. Walker.
• Global Community Bio Summit 4.0 Proceedings Global Community Bio Summit (2021), Justice T. Walker, Amanda Strawhacker, Carolyn Angleton, John Allan, Arunav Konwar, Olatunbosun Obayomi, David S. Kong.
• Middle School Student Knowledge and Attitudes Toward Biotechnology (2021), Justice T. Walker.
• Influence of Machine Parameters on the Physical Characteristics of 3D-Printed Sand Molds for Metal Casting International Journal of Metalcasting 15 2 (2021), N. Bryant, T. Frush, J. Thiel, Eric MacDonald, Justice T. Walker.
• Debugging by Design: A Constructionist Approach to High School Students’ Crafting and Coding of Electronic Textiles as Failure Artifacts British Journal of Education Technology (2021), Debbie Fields, Yasmin Kafai, Luis Morales-Navarro, Justice T. Walker.
• The Biodesign Studio: Constructions and Reflections of High School Students on Making with Living Media Association for Computing Machinery (2021), Justice T. Walker, Yasmin B. Kafai.
• Communicating about computational thinking: understanding affordances of portfolios for assessing high school students' computational thinking and participation practices Computer Science Education (2021), Deborah Fields, Debora Lui, Yasmin Kafai, Gayithri Jayathirtha, Justice T. Walker, Mia Shaw.
• Learn.Design.Bio.K12: A workshop report on connecting computing and biodesignin K-12 education (2020), Yasmin Kafai, Karen Hogan, Orkan Telhan, Justice T. Walker.
• Tools for Biomakers: Reviewing Affordances and Constraints for K-12 Hands-On Making with Biology (2020), Yasmin Kafai, Justice T. Walker.
• Bringing 21st-century science into schools Phi Delta Kappan 102 1 (2020), Yasmin B. Kafai, Justice T. Walker.
• Twenty Things to Make with Biology Constructionism Conference (2020), Yasmin B. Kafai, Justice T. Walker.
• Communicating computational concepts and practices within high school students' portfolios of making electronic textiles Interactive Learning Environments 28 3 (2020), Debora Lui, Justice T. Walker, Sheri Hanna, Yasmin B. Kafai, Deborah Fields, Gayithri Jayathirtha.
• Pair physical computing: high school students' practices and perceptions of collaborative coding and crafting with electronic textiles Computer Science Education 30 1 (2019), Debora Lui, Yasmin Kafai, Breanne Litts, Justice T. Walker, Sari Widman.
• A maker studio model for high school classrooms: The nature and Role of critique in an electronic textiles design project Teachers College Record 121 9 (2019), Breanne K. Litts, Sari A. Widman, Debora A. Lui, Justice T. Walker, Yasmin B. Kafai.
• A Revaluation of How We Think about Making: Examining Assembly Practices and Artifact Imagination in Biomaking Association for Computing Machinery (2019), Debora Lui, Yasmin B. Kafai, Justice T. Walker, Sheri Hanna, Karen Hogan, Orkan Telhan.
• A Scaled Analysis of How Minecraft Gamers Leverage YouTube Comment Boxes to Participate and Collaborate International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS) (2019), Justice T. Walker, Stefan Slater, Yasmin Kafai.
• Arguing about Synthetic Biology in 140 Characters or Less: Affordances of Microblogging for High School Students Discussions of Socioscientific Issues International Society of the Learning Sciences 1 (2019), Mia Shaw, Justice T. Walker, Yasmin Kafai.
• Stitching the Loop with Electronic Textiles: Promoting Equity in High School Students' Competencies and Perceptions of Computer Science Association for Computing Machinery (2019), Yasmin B. Kafai, Deborah A. Fields, Debora A. Lui, Justice T. Walker, Mia S. Shaw, Gayithri Jayathirtha, Tomoko M. Nakajima, Joanna Goode, Michael T. Giang.
• When Biology Learning Paradigms Shift: What Middle School Students Know, Think, And Learn About Synthetic Biology (2019), Justice T. Walker.

• Coding Like a Data Miner: Reflections on Epistemic Plurality in Sandbox Data Science with Youth (2024), Volume Philadelphia, PA, Michael Johnson, Amanda Barany, Alan Barrera, Alex Acquah, Sayed Reza, Justice T. Walker.
• Communicating about computational thinking: Understanding affordances of portfolios for assessing high school students’ computational thinking and participation practices. (2024), Volume Philadelphia, PA, Debbie Fields, Deborah Lui, Yasmin Kafai, Gayithri Jayathirtha, Justice T. Walker, Mia Shaw.
• Operationalizing Equity Within Educational Psychology Informed Research and Praxis (2023), Volume Chicago, IL, Terrell Morton, Whitney McCoy, Remy Dou, Justice T. Walker, Courtney Hattan, Ashley Woodson, Jean Ryoo, Mia Shaw, Dawn Henderson, Sheretta Butler-Barnes.
• "Allow Me to Reintroduce Myself": Doing Equity Work in Ways That Disrupt Systemic Oppression and Empower Marginalized Groups (2023), Volume Chicago, IL, Terrell Morton, Sandra Graham, Ashley Woodson, Jean Ryoo, Mia Shaw, Shirin Vossoughi, Dawn Henderson, Sheretta Butler-Barnes, Justice T. Walker.
• Navigator to Producer: Data Science as an Access Point for Equitable Pre-College Computer Science Education (2023), Volume Chicago, IL, Alan Barrera, Michael Johnson, Amanda Barany, Sayed Reza, Omar B. Badreddin, Justice T. Walker.
• Practice and Positionality: Critical Instantiations of STEAM Education and Research (2023), Volume Chicago, IL, Amanda Strawhacker, Ziva R. Hassenfeld, Justice T. Walker.
• Social and Cultural Relevance: A Design Principle for Data Science-based Computer Science Education (2023), Volume Chicago, IL, Sayed Reza, Alan Barrera, Michael Johnson, Amanda Barany, Omar B. Badreddin, Justice T. Walker.
• Social Media Discourse Instruments as Tools Socioscientific Argumentation (2023), Volume Chicago, IL, Justice T. Walker, Amanda Barany, Alan Barrera, Stefan Slater, Omar B. Badreddin, Sayed Reza, Michael Johnson.
• Critically theorizing the margins for reform-based equity in science: A disobedient reckoning (2023), Volume Chicago, IL, Phillip Boda, Justice T. Walker, Gary Wright.
• Think Equity: Learning Sciences Directions Toward Responsible STEAM Education Research and Practice (2023), Volume Cambridge, Massachusetts, Justice T. Walker.
• Re-Imagining Equity Paths for the Next Generation of Maker Teaching and Learning (2022), Volume Cambridge, MA, Justice T. Walker.
• A Culturally Relevant Data Analytics-based Computer Science Curriculum for High School Students. (2022), Volume El Paso, Texas, Justice T. Walker.
• Mid-scale RI-2: National STEM Education Research CoLab (2022), Volume El Paso, Texas, Justice T. Walker.
• BioCakes: A BioMaking Activity for Teaching and Learning about Synthetic Biology (2022), Volume El Paso, Texas, Justice T. Walker.
• Augmented and Ambient Technologies to Support Embodied and Collaborative Learning (2022), Volume San Diego, CA, Justice T. Walker.
• Community Labs: Deep Root Spaces for BioMaking (2022), Volume San Diego, CA, Justice T. Walker, Lydia Stamato, Nisa Asgarali-Hoffman, Foad Hamidi, Lisa Scheifele.
• How Teachers Teach, Conceptualize, and Talk About Integrated STEM. (2022), Volume San Diego, CA, Justice T. Walker.
• Improving Equity and Quality in Science Education (2022), Volume San Diego, CA, Justice T. Walker.
• Coding Like a Data Miner: A Culturally Relevant Data Analytics Intervention for High School Students (2022), Volume El Paso, Texas, Sayed Reza, Alan Barrera, Amanda Barany, Omar B. Badreddin, Michael Johnson, Justice T. Walker.
• Sandbox Science: Equity Approaches to Open-Ended Data and Computer Science Curricular Design (2022), Volume El Paso, Texas, Alan Barrera, Sayed Reza, Amanda Barany, Omar B. Badreddin, Michael Johnson, Justice T. Walker.
• Perspectives, Practices, and Places: Emerging Paradigms for Modern Life Science Learning (2021), Volume Atlanta, Georgia, Justice T. Walker.
• Using Biology to Make: Design Biology for Research, Learning, and Practice (2021), Volume Baltimore, Maryland, Justice T. Walker.
• Constructing Community Bio: Diverse Perspectives in Community Building for Teaching and Learning (2021), Volume Cambridge, Massachusetts, Justice T. Walker, Foad Hamidi, Cathy Chen, Leon Elcock.
• Prototyping Your Practice: Action Equity in Teaching and Learning (2021), Volume Cambridge, Massachusetts, Alisha Collins, Anja Scholze, Callie Chappell, Justice T. Walker.
• Charting Life Science Frontiers: Research on Synthetic Biology Teaching and Learning (2021), Volume Stanford, California, Justice T. Walker.
• Encouraging Creativity Via Innovative Technology (2021), Volume Texas, USA, Daniel A. Tillman, Song A. An, Josefina V. Tinajero, Justice T. Walker, William H. Robertson.
• BioCakes: An Equity-Informed Approach to Middle and High School Synthetic Biology Learning (2021), Volume Orlando, FL, Justice T. Walker.
• The Biomaker Ecosystem: Technologies, Spaces and Curriculum for K-12 Making with Biology (2021), Volume Orlando, FL, Justice T. Walker, Amanda Strawhacker.
• Biodesign and education - using design principles and synthetic biology to engage diverse learners (2020), Volume Virtual, Justice T. Walker.
• Making with Living Media: High School Youth Participation and Projects in the Biodesign Challenge (2020), Volume Columbia University, Justice T. Walker, Yasmin Kafai.
• Future Directions in Life Science Education: Innovations, Blindspots, and Opportunities (2020), Volume Cambridge, MA, Natalie Kuldell, Bryan Brown, Michael Tissenbaum, Justice T. Walker.
• Supporting Computer Science Engagement and Learning Through Reflective, Process-Based Portfolio Assessments (2020), Volume Conference Cancelled, Debbie Fields, Yasmin Kafai, Debora Lui, Mia Shaw, Gayithri Jayathirtha, Justice T. Walker.
• Lightning Talks: Bio.Tech Education Access and Literacies. (2019), Volume Cambridge, MA, Justice T. Walker, Sonali Kadam.
• Designing Life in the 21st Century: A Review of High School Students’ Attitudes Toward Biotechnologies. (2019), Volume Toronto, CA, Justice T. Walker, Yasmin Kafai.
• Scaling up Equity with E-Textiles: Stitch the Loop Unit Results in Exploring Computer Science. (2019), Volume Toronto, CA, Justice T. Walker, Debbie Fields, Yasmin Kafai, Tomoko Nakajima, Debora Lui, Joanna Goode, Jane Margolis, Gayithri Jayathirtha, Mia Shaw.
• Stitching the Loop: An E-Textiles Curriculum for Exploring Computer Science. (2019), Volume Toronto, CA, Debbie Fields, Yasmin Kafai, Mia Shaw, Debora Lui, Tomoko Nakajima, Joanna Goode, Jane Margolis, Gayithri Jayathirtha, Justice T. Walker.
• bioCAKES: Making with Biology (2019), Volume Columbia University, Justice T. Walker, Mia Shaw, Yasmin Kafai.

• Postdoctoral Fellows as Leaders in Next-Generation Computer Science Education Research-Practice Partnerships Serving Minoritized Communities, $1,202,712 (Co-PI)
• SUPPLEMENTAL AWARD BPC-DP: Coding Like a Data Miner: A Culturally Relevant Data Analytics Intervention for High School Students, $36,000 (PI)
• Pulse to Foster Productive Struggle in Lower-Division Programming Courses For Improved Self-Efficacy, $299,950 (Co-PI)
• Building Capacity in Computer Science Education Research at the University of Texas at El Paso, $734,992 (Co-PI)
• BPC-DP: Coding Like a Data Miner: A Culturally Relevant Data Analytics Intervention for High School Students, $299,949 (PI)
• Synthetic Biology and Me: A Culturally Relevant Secondary School Professional Development Pilot Implementation, University Research Institute, $5,000 (PI)