Mina Rezaei is a Ph.D. candidate in Geography at University of California, Davis. Her research areas include using digital literary cartography to raise young people’s spatial learning in the United states. She also has done research about young people’s involvement in the process of planning and designing their communities in both Iran and the US. She has contributed chapters about female teenagers in Iranian cinema to The Child in World Cinema (2018 Lexington) and young people’s involvement in Rocky Hill Trail project, Vacaville for  The Routledge Handbook of Designing Public Spaces for Young People: Processes, Practices and Policies for Youth Inclusion (2020 Routledge).