Dr. Alexis Redding is a developmental psychologist who has been working with young adults for more than 25 years as a professor, researcher, and coach.

Today, she serves the faculty co-chair of Higher Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) where she won the Morningstar Family Teaching Award in 2023.

Dr. Redding is a leading expert on mental health in young adulthood and is the editor of the new book Mental Health in College: What Research Tells Us About Supporting Students. She is the inaugural faculty chair of the Mental Health in Higher Education professional development program at HGSE.

At Harvard, she co-leads the Transition to Adulthood Lab at HGSE, which uses a trove of lost interviews from the 1970s to study generational continuity and lifespan development. She is the co-author of The End of Adolescence: The Lost Art of Delaying Adulthood and several articles in The Atlantic about this study. 

Dr. Redding was a Presidential Scholar at Harvard University, where she earned both a doctorate and master’s degree in psychology. She also holds a BA degree from Harvard College and a Graduate Certificate in College Counseling from UCLA.

She is a frequent keynote speaker and her TEDx talk on how to support college students reached 700k+ views in the first 3 months.

Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Fast Company, Teen Vogue, Inside Higher Ed, NPR, and The Harvard Business Review, among other publications.