Room 8 - Dr. Rebecca M. B. White

• In Event: Thursday Afternoon Chat with Leaders

Abstract

Rebecca is Associate Professor of Family and Human Development in the School of Social and Family Dynamics at Arizona State University (ASU). 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 Latinx adolescents’ development within cultural, neighborhood, and family contexts. Her work has been funded by the William T. Grant Foundation, the John Templeton Foundation, the National Institutes of Heath, and the National Science Foundation. She has published both empirical and conceptual pieces related to examining the intersecting implications of residential segregation and cultural adaptations for youth development in numerous outlets, including American Psychologist (doi: 10.1037/amp0000237), Child Development (doi: 10.1111/cdev.12772), JAMA Pediatrics (doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2020.0014), 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. Rebecca has served on numerous editorial boards, as a member of SRCD’s Ethnic Racial Issues committee, as Secretary of SRCD’s Latinx Caucus, and as a leader in addressing White Supremacy. In these contexts, she engages with a group of magnificent scholars to promote a just version of the developmental sciences. Because she believes, especially in the context of a Lunch with the Leaders event, that it is essential to actively recognize multiple pathways to “leadership,” 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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