• Stephanie Peña-Alves
  • Stephanie Peña-Alves
  • Lead User Experience Researcher, Cisco Meraki

    Steph Peña-Alves received her PhD in January 2022 and is a Lead UX Researcher at Cisco Meraki. She oversees and executes strategic research across Cisco Networking to drive decision-making on user experience design, product development, change management, and business transformation. Unsurprisingly, her decade of studying doors is put to great use in a world of firewalls, VPN tunnels, and encryption keys! She continues to publish her scholarly work on the the social relation between “in” and “out,” including a forthcoming article on the formal dynamics of “invasion.”