Alexandra  Dolan-Mescal is an artist, archivist, and user experience designer whose work aims to increase social capacity for individual empathy and cultural understanding. As the user experience designer for Documenting the Now, she employs human-centered and participatory design models to develop tools that work for and with their communities. She also teaches archival theory at the City University of New York, which informs her ethical inquiries and methodologies for archiving social media within the Documenting the Now project.