I am an Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology in the Department of Individual, Family, and Community Education at the University of New Mexico. Prior to joining the faculty at UNM, I spent two years as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Wheaton College Massachusetts.

In my work, I use diverse methods to study how individuals engage with societal inequity as they forge identity related beliefs and behaviors. A key aim of my research is to illuminate the implications of everyday actions, highlighting the mutually constituting relationship between person and context. Having received graduate training in Germany, I work with colleagues and participants in both the U.S. and European contexts.

My work has been published in the Journal of Adolescent Research, Child Development, and the American Psychologist, among other outlets. In 2023 I was awarded the Early Career Research Contributions Award from the Society for Research in Child Development.

I am currently a Consulting Editor at the journal Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology and the Journal of Research on Adolescence and an Associate Editor at Identity.

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