Table 20 – Dr. Rebecca M. B. White

• In Event: 1-056 - Thursday Lunch with Leaders

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Biography:
Rebecca is Associate Professor of Family and Human Development in the T. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics at Arizona State University (ASU), where she is also Interim Director of the Latino Resilience Enterprise. Broadly, Rebecca aspires to engage in meaningful scholarship (research, teaching, and service) geared toward addressing inequalities and promoting positive youth development. Her program of research examines Mexican-origin Latino adolescents’ development within cultural, neighborhood, and family contexts. Her work is currently funded by the William T. Grant Foundation, the John Templeton Foundation, the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, and the National Science Foundation. She has published both empirical and conceptual pieces related to examining the intersecting implications of residential segregation and cultural adaptation for youth development in numerous outlets, including American Psychologist (doi: 10.1037/amp0000237), Child Development (doi: 10.1111/cdev.12772), and others. She enthusiastically engages in mentoring emerging scholars, including those in the Society for Research in Child Development’s (SRCD) Frances Degen Horowitz Millennium Scholars Program and the Society for Research on Adolescent’s Young Scholars Program. Rebecca is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Research on Adolescence, a member of SRCD’s Ethnic Racial Issues committee, and serves as Secretary of SRCD’s Latino Caucus, where she engages with a group of magnificent scholars to promote high-quality research with Latino children, youth, and families. Because she believes, especially in the context of a "Lunch with the Leaders" event, that active recognition that there is no single path to “leadership” is essential, she wants to share that she trained in general studies and American Sign Language at New River Community College (2000), in human services counseling at Old Dominion University (2000), in public health at the University of Arizona (2003), and in family and human development at ASU (2008).

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• Rebecca M. B. White, Arizona State University
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