Alexis Redding is a developmental psychologist at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where she is the faculty co-chair of Higher Education. In 2022, she designed and launched the Mental Health in Higher Education: A Theory-to-Practice Approach for Student Well-Being professional education program for student affairs administrators and higher education leaders. She has also edited the upcoming Mental Health in College: What Research Tells Us About Supporting Students, available in April 2026.
Redding is a leading expert on the experience of young adults navigating college and career transitions. She is the editor of the forthcoming book Mental Health in College: What Research Tells Us About Supporting Students (Harvard Education Press) and the co-author of The End of Adolescence: The Lost Art of Delaying Adulthood (Harvard University Press), which uses a lost archive of student interviews to examine the college experience over the past 50 years.
Her work has been featured in the Atlantic, the New York Times, the Detroit Free Press, Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, and Teen Vogue. She is a frequent keynote speaker on college student mental health, the undergraduate experience, and the transition from college to the workforce.
