Skyé Lowe · Work & Research
A research film examining the architecture of Black hair as identity, resistance, and cultural language — co-directed and brought from concept to international exhibition.
The 2025 Biennale's theme was architecture — and we argued that hair itself is a form of architecture: built, structured, and inherited, spanning different eras and different cultures. The film highlights Asian, African, and European hairstyles that have held culture and meaning over time, drawing on archival materials, original interviews, and visual research methods.
Junior Paper under Professor Cooper, exploring how identity-behavior conflict leads to motivational disengagement — and what conditions make people double down versus disengage entirely.
Spanning roughly 65 pages, the paper draws on Festinger's original dissonance theory, Oyserman's identity-based motivation framework, and Covington's self-worth theory to build an integrative account of motivation loss in high-stakes contexts. It serves as a prelude to my senior thesis, which will deploy an intervention study to determine whether dissonance-driven motivation loss can be controlled for in the modern context.
A preregistered replication of Hopkins et al. (2016) examining whether reductive language increases the perceived quality of scientific explanations — even when that language adds no real information.
The study recruited 50 participants via Prolific and used R with mixed-effects modeling, bootstrapped confidence intervals, and simple-effects analyses. Our replication did not reproduce the original main effect — a finding that itself contributes to a growing literature questioning the boundary conditions of the "seductive allure" phenomenon.
Project Rousseau is a nonprofit dedicated to helping young people in communities with the greatest need reach their full potential — combining mentorship and college access with pro bono legal support, including asylum and immigration casework for families navigating the system.
As a legal intern, I built skills that sit at the heart of legal practice: conducting client interviews across languages, translating lived experience into court-ready affidavits, researching statutes and case law under deadline, and holding an active caseload to rigorous organizational standards.
Campus AI Lead at a Series A company building a platform that coordinates 100+ AI models, with 3M+ users on the waitlist. The role sits at the intersection of product, community, and policy.
At Princeton, the work means organizing AI hackathons across student organizations and synthesizing student perspectives on emerging technology directly into product development — with a consistent focus on the legal, ethical, and governance dimensions of AI.
As Marketing & Outreach Lead for Princeton Caribbean Connection, spearheaded the communications and outreach strategy behind three consecutive annual conferences — building PCC into a recognized voice on Caribbean policy and public life.
The conferences drew 150+ attendees across Ivy+ institutions, government offices, and corporate sectors, requiring coordinated outreach strategy, cross-sector stakeholder engagement, and consistent brand voice across all channels.
Digital Media Coordinator for Princeton Varsity Athletics — managing live reporting, content strategy, and storytelling across Division I events and platforms, covering teams including hockey, swimming, rugby, and more.
The role demands real-time decision-making under pressure, a consistent editorial voice, and the ability to translate fast-moving athletic events into compelling digital content for broad audiences.
Research Analyst under Professor Alin Coman at Princeton University, building predictive behavioral models to identify statistically significant drivers of consumer decision-making — translating complex quantitative findings into actionable insights for interdisciplinary research teams. The position concluded in March 2026.
The work combined statistical modeling in R with data visualization and dashboard design, supporting iterative experimental design and ongoing study development.