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)

• 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 workshopreport 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 (in press), 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.
• Affordances of Digital, Textile and Living Media for Designing and Learning Biology in K-12 Education 1282 (2018), Joshua Danish, Megan Humburg, Xintian Tu, Bria Davis, Chris Georgen, Engin Bumbacher, Paulo Blikstein, Peter Washington, Ingmar Riedel-Kruse, Tamara Clegg, Justice T. Walker.
• Biohacking Food: A Case Study of Science Inquiry and Design Reflections About a Synthetic Biology High School Workshop 1560 (2018), Justice T. Walker, Mia S. Shaw, Yasmin B. Kafai, Debora Lui.
• Reviewed Work: Our School: Searching for Community in the Era of Choice by Sam Chaltain The Journal of Negro Education 87 4 (2018), Justice T. Walker.
• Collaborative E-crafting: Adopting Collectivistic Orientations Toward E-Textile Maker Projects American Educational Research Association (2017), Breanne K. Litts, Yasmin B. Kafai, Debora A. Lui, Sari A. Widman, Justice T. Walker.
• Growing designs with biomakerlab in high school classrooms Association for Computing Machinery (2017), Yasmin Kafai, Orkan Telhan, Karen Hogan, Debora Lui, Emma Anderson, Justice T. Walker, Sheri Hanna.
• Making with Biology: How to Grow Socially Responsive and Creative Designs with bioMAKERlab 3 (2017), Debora Lui, Justice T. Walker, Sheri Hanna, Karen Hogan, Yasmin B. Kafai, Orkan Telhan.
• Reflections on pair E-crafting: High school students' approaches to collaboration in electronic textiles projects International Society of the Learning Sciences. (2017), Breanne K. Litts, Debora A. Lui, Sari A. Widman, Justice T. Walker, Yasmin B. Kafai.
• Stitching codeable circuits: High school students' learning about circuitry and coding with electronic textiles Journal of Science Education and Technology 26 5 (2017), Breanne K. Litts, Yasmin B. Kafai, Debora A. Lui, Justice T. Walker, Sari A. Widman.
• The gender and race of pixels: an exploration of intersectional identity representation and construction within minecraft and its community Association for Computing Machinery (2017), Emma Anderson, Justice T. Walker, Yasmin B. Kafai, Debora Lui.
• Understanding high school students' reading, remixing, and writing codeable circuits for electronic textiles Association for Computing Machinery (2017), Breanne K. Litts, Yasmin B. Kafai, Debora Lui, Justice T. Walker, Sari Widman.

• 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.
• Learning in the Biotech Era: Diversity, Engagement and Participation Priorities (2018), Volume Cambridge, MA, Justice T. Walker, Connie Chow.
• Synthetic Biology Activities for K-12 Students (2018), Volume Cambridge, MA, Justice T. Walker, Yasmin Kafai.
• Maker Process Portfolios: Looking at How Students Document Interdisciplinary E-Textiles Projects Within Digital Portfolios (2018), Volume New York, NY, Debora Lui, Justice T. Walker, Gayithri Jayathirtha, Yasmin Kafai.
• What is a Maker Mindset? Exploring 'Thinking Outside the Box' through E-Textiles and BioDesign Making. (2018), Volume New York, NY, Emma Anderson, Debora Lui, Justice T. Walker, Yasmin Kafai.
• Making with Biology: How to Grow Socially Responsive and Creative Designs with bioMAKERlab (2017), Volume University of California, Irvine, Debora Lui, Justice T. Walker, Sheri Hanna, Karen Hogan, Yasmin Kafai, Orkan Telhan.
• Kids as Biodesigners (2017), Volume Cambridge, MA, Yasmin Kafai, Justice T. Walker.
• Collaborative E- Crafting: Adopting Collectivistic Orientations Toward E-Textiles Maker Projects. (2017), Volume San Antonio, TX, Breanna Litts, Yasmin Kafai, Debora Lui, Sari Widman, Justice T. Walker.
• Computational Circuitry: High School Student Code Circuits in Electronic Textile Designs (2017), Volume San Antonio, TX, Breanne Litts, Debora Lui, Justice T. Walker, Sari Widman, Yasmin Kafai.
• Science Lab as Maker Studio: Creating and Critiquing Electronic Textiles in a High School Class (2017), Volume San Antonio, TX, Breanne Litts, Debora Lui, Sari Widman, Justice T. Walker, Yasmin Kafai.
• Do Pixels have Race? Investigating Youth Racial Engagement in Minecraft Play, Production, and Community Participation (2017), Volume Cambridge, MA, Emma Anderson, Justice T. Walker.

• BPC-DP: Coding Like a Data Miner: A Culturally Relevant Data Analytics Intervention for High School Students, National Science Foundation, $299,949
• Synthetic Biology and Me: A Culturally Relevant Secondary School Professional Development Pilot Implementation, University Research Institute, $5,000