Biography

Moderator:
Dr. Eleanor K. Seaton is an Associate Professor in the Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics at Arizona State University. Dr. Seaton is a developmental psychologist who uses quantitative and qualitative approaches to examine racial discrimination measurement, mediators and moderators for racial discrimination experiences, and the development and content of racial identity. Dr. Seaton’s current projects include the development of a racial discrimination measure assessing incidents at the nexus of race and gender, and a project examining cortisol levels with daily racial discrimination experiences among African American college students. Dr. Seaton is the current chair of SRCD’s Ethnic and Racial Issues Committee and the past chair of SRA’s Diversity and Equity Committee. Dr. Seaton has a tendency to journal, travel, bake desserts for family and friends, shop, read fiction novels, watch movies and groove to House music when relaxing.

Panelists:

Jose-Michael Gonzalez is a 4th year PhD Student in Family Studies & Human Development at University of Arizona, minoring in Intervention and Evaluation. He possesses a B.A. in Child Development from California State University, Stanislaus and M.S. in Family Studies & Human Development from University of Arizona with Child Development Teacher and Site Supervisor credentials and Behavioral Health Technician certification. His scholarly/research agenda focuses on Positive Youth Development (PYD) among ethnic/racial minority and marginalized children and youth in cross-cultural/national contexts, and applications of PYD fundamentals in Global Extension programming. His research aim is to further develop methods centered on examining developmental mechanisms of intra- and inter-variation centered on intersectoral, multilevel, and multicomponent experiences that align with assets of children, youth, and families from historically marginalized groups and developing nations, toward uncovering protective mechanisms in early childhood with effects through the lifespan that inform, research, policy and extension and intervention/prevention practice.

Charissa S. L. Cheah, Ph.D. is a Professor in the Department of Psychology (Applied Developmental Program) at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Dr. Cheah’s research and publications focus on how multiple aspects of culture, including values and beliefs, ethnic majority versus minority and immigrant status, and the socio-cultural context, impact child and adolescent social, emotional, health, and academic development. Dr. Cheah is the current Chair of the Asian Caucus and serves on the Ethnic and Racial Issues Committee of the SRCD. She is also an elected member of the Executive Committee and the Membership Committee of the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development. Additionally, Dr. Cheah is an editorial board member of the journals Social Development, International Journal of Behavioral Development, and the Journal of Family Psychology.

Richard M. Lee, PhD is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Minnesota. He is the current editor of Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology and a past president of the Asian American Psychological Association. Dr. Lee seeks to advance theory and measurement related to culture-specific risk and protective factors. He also studies the transracial and transnational experiences of Korean children who were adopted internationally by White families. Most recently, he is engaged in community-based research to improve engagement in evidence-based prevention programs for racial and ethnic minority populations. Beyond publishing enough papers to get tenured and promoted, he enjoys cooking, biking, karaoke, camping, supporting the local arts, and watching too much television.

Vaishali V. Raval is associate professor of psychology and affiliate of global and intercultural studies at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. She received a PhD in clinical/developmental psychology from University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in cultural psychology and human development at the University of Chicago before joining Miami University as a faculty member. Her major program of research focuses on cultural and contextual foundations of parenting, and parental socialization of emotion and how they relate to child and adolescent socio-emotional functioning. She is developing a new line of research in global mental health, focusing on culturally competent and evidence-based mental health care. She regularly teaches courses at the intersection of culture and mental health, and mentors graduate and undergraduate students in this work. Her service activities also reflect a commitment to multiculturalism and crossing disciplinary boundaries.

Dr. Susan Rivera is a full professor at the University of California, Davis who specializes in neurocognitive development. She is a first generation Latina scholar, the youngest of 13 children. Her scholarly work includes the study of both typically developing individuals, as well as individuals with neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism and fragile X syndrome. Dr. Rivera's current investigations focus on several aspects of cognitive functioning, including arithmetic reasoning, biological motion perception and multi-sensory integration. She uses several different techniques in her research including eye-tracking, ERP and functional and structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI.)

Dr. Russell B. Toomey is an Assistant Professor of Family Studies and Human Development at the University of Arizona. His research identifies malleable contextual and individual-level factors that contribute to and mitigate health disparities experienced by marginalized adolescents in the U.S. His research has examined these relationships with explicit attention to the minority-specific stressors that contribute to the disparate rates of negative outcomes experienced by sexual and gender minority adolescents and Latinx youth, and the culturally-relevant protective factors (e.g., ethnic-racial identity, Gay-Straight Alliances) that buffer these associations. Dr. Toomey’s current research integrates these two distinct – but conceptually similar - lines of research (i.e., SGM youth and Latinx youth), and focuses on how the amalgamation of individuals’ multiple marginalized identities contributes to their contextual experiences and well-being. Dr. Toomey is Associate Editor for the Journal of Adolescent Research and is a recipient of the Society for Research on Adolescence Young Investigator Award.

Brendesha Tynes is an associate professor of education and psychology and director of the Digital Learning and Development Lab at the University of Southern California Rossier School of Education. Her research for the past 15 years has focused on the construction of race and gender in online settings, online racial discrimination and the design of digital tools that empower underrepresented youth. Tynes is co-editor of the Intersectional Internet: Race, Sex, Class and Culture Online (2016) and the Handbook of African American Psychology (Sage, 2009). She is the recipient of numerous awards including the 2015 AERA Early Career Award, and the Spencer Foundation Midcareer Award. Her work has been cited in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Newsweek and several other outlets. Tynes has a master’s in learning sciences from Northwestern and a doctorate in human development and psychology in education from UCLA.

1-004 - A Tale of Two Academies: Experiences of Underrepresented Faculty

Session Type: Invited SRCD Salon

Integrative Statement

Sponsored by the SRCD Ethnic and Racial Issues (ERI) Committee

Sub Unit

• Special Events

Moderator

• Eleanor K. Seaton, Arizona State University

Panelists

• Jose-Michael Gonzalez, University of Arizona, USA

• Charissa S. L. Cheah, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

• Richard M. Lee, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

• Vaishali V. Raval, Miami University

• Susan M. Rivera, University of California, Davis

• Russell B. Toomey, University of Arizona

• Brendesha Tynes, University of Southern California