Room 2 - Dr. Sheretta T. Butler-Barnes

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Abstract

Dr. Sheretta T. Butler-Barnes is an Associate Professor of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL). A developmental psychologist and quantitative methodologist, Butler-Barnes line of research includes examining how Black youth draw on individual and cultural assets and resources to thrive despite challenges to their identities from structural, individual, and cultural racism. Her expertise and scholarly work is on Black children and youth, risk and resilience, academic achievement, and wellbeing. Butler-Barnes also has extensive experience in youth programming as it pertains to Black adolescent girls. Dr. Butler-Barnes has a Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology.

Author

• Sheretta T Butler-Barnes, Washington University in St. Louis
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