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 take our inequitable society as a starting point, focusing in particular on white supremacy, patriarchy, and their intersection. Using qualitative and quantitative methods, I situate youth in micro- and macro-level context, studying how young people navigate family, school, and society as they develop beliefs and behaviors that alternately perpetuate or resist societal inequity. Additionally, I turn the lens on psychological research itself, examining how the methods, measures, and terms we use either reinforce or resist harm. 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 Research on Adolescence, 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 an Associate Editor at Identity, where I am also co-editing a special issue on identity in the context of migration.
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