Room 9 - Dr. Laura Wray-Lake

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Abstract

Laura Wray-Lake received a Ph.D. in Human Development and Family Studies from Penn State University in 2010. After assistant professorships at Claremont Graduate University (2010-2013) and University of Rochester (2013-2016), Dr. Wray-Lake joined the Department of Social Welfare at University of California, Los Angeles, where she is an Associate Professor. Wray-Lake’s program of research focuses on how and why young people become civically engaged. She has published over 60 research articles and book chapters, and her work uses multiple methodologies and takes developmental, cultural, and contextual perspectives in studying youth civic engagement. Recent work includes a SRCD Monograph (Wray-Lake & Abrams, 2020) that presents an in-depth qualitative examination of civic engagement among urban youth of color. In a 2020 paper in Developmental Psychology, Wray-Lake and colleagues documented racial/ethnic, gender, and social class differences in civic engagement trajectories across the transition to adulthood. She has received grant funding from the National Science Foundation, Templeton Foundation, Spencer Foundation, and the Corporation for National and Community Service. In 2020, she was awarded a Mid-Career Award for Research Excellence from the Society for Research on Adolescence. Dr. Wray-Lake currently serves as an Associate Editor at the Journal of Research on Adolescence and as an elected member of the Executive Council of the Society for Research on Adolescence.

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• Laura Wray-Lake, University of California - Los Angeles
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