Matt Lavine is a research assistant at EDC's Center for Children and Technology. Although relatively new to research, he began working with young people in the late '80s and early '90s, through the Teachers and Writers Collaborative and the Educational Video Center, focusing on efforts to assist young people in the creation and production of their own written and electronic media, while obtaining his BA at Eugene Lang College of the New School for Social Research.

Following his thesis work with teens at the Hetrick-Martin Institute in New York, Matt became the Director of Education at Film/Video Arts, which provides media education and production to a wide range of communities and individuals. There he oversaw a curriculum of 50 to75 classes each semester and several artist-mentor grant programs, as well as increased student enrollment to nearly 1,000 students a year. He also expanded the curriculum to offer New York's first video-installation classes, one of the first mixed-media-performance workshops, and some of New York's first nonlinear video editing courses. Through an NEA grant, Matt became responsible for creating a new digital media arts lab and curriculum. He was also involved in the first round of Annenberg Arts-Partnership Collaboration grants with public schools, developing a filmmaker-in-the-schools proposal, and he initiated a "Young Filmmakers Camp" at F/VA. In the mid-'90s, Matt was the Director of In-Schools Programming for the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, where he worked with a national coalition of organizations and teachers (K-12) on developing and distributing curricular materials to be used in potentially resistant contexts.

In 2000, Matt was an associate producer for a children's series on the Fox Family Channel, and more recently introduced radio production to young journalists through the Children's Express Foundation.