Table 4 – Dr. Rebekah Levine Coley

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Biography:
Rebekah Levine Coley, Ph.D. is Chair and Professor of Counseling, Developmental, and Educational Psychology at Boston College. She received her doctorate in Developmental Psychology from the University of Michigan and postdoctoral training in Demography and Public Policy at the University of Chicago. Dr. Coley’s research seeks to delineate the key family, school, and community processes which transmit economic and social inequality to children’s development from infancy through adolescence. She uses longitudinal, multi-method, and evaluation methodologies to inform social and educational practice and policy at the local, state, and federal level. Professor Coley’s research has been published in dozens of leading journals and edited volumes, and has received funding from the National Institutes of Health, the Australian Research Council, and numerous private foundations. She is the founding Editor of the new Child Evidence Briefs series published by the Society for Research in Child Development which seeks to translate developmental science to federal and state policy makers, and holds leadership positions in the Society for Research in Child Development, the Society for Research on Adolescence, the Child Care and Early Education Policy Research Consortium, and the University-based Child and Family Policy Consortium. Her research excellence has been recognized through receipt of a Fulbright Senior Scholar Award and a Social Policy Award from the Society for Research in Adolescence.

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• Rebekah Levine Coley, Boston College
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