Camela Logan

Dr. Camela Logan is a Research Director and Product Lead at Meta, where she leads a team dedicated to empowering technologists to design products that meet global users’ distinct needs through its development of innovative product development approaches to serving everyone. She is also the co-founder and head of Meta’s Co-Design program, an initiative that brings community members into the product development process as equal collaborators to ensure technologies are built with–and not just for–the people they serve. Prior to her current role, she spearheaded research supporting the development of social impact products across Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

Before joining Meta, Dr. Logan worked as a UX research consultant for a range of organizations across the U.S., U.K., and France, including: eBay, UN Women, Ritual Vitamins, Meri Media, and F#.
With academic training in linguistics and cultural anthropology, Dr. Logan is widely recognized for her leadership in bridging gaps in understanding across cultures in one of the most culturally integrated spaces of our time—the technology space. Her work reflects a personal mission to ensure that emerging technologies are designed to be accessible and relevant to all users – regardless of background, region, language, ability, or experience level.

Fluent in five languages, Dr. Logan holds a dual bachelor’s degree in French Civilization and International Relations from Brown University, a master’s in Medieval and Modern Languages (French) from the University of Oxford (Christ Church), and a doctorate in contemporary Francophone African expressive cultures from the University of Michigan.

When she isn’t studying people, she is studying flours and butter-to-water ratios as she is also a Cordon-Bleu-trained and James Beard scholarship-winning French pastry chef. Dr. Logan also has a long-standing passion for the performing arts, as a classically trained ballet and tap dancer who has performed with various dance groups over the years.