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Equity & Justice Committee

Description

The Equity and Justice Committee is responsible for addressing issues of equity and justice in child development, particularly in an increasingly heterogenous global community.

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Mission Statement

The Committee has a mission to:

  1. Promote the importance and legitimacy of national, international, and interdisciplinary scientific scholarship on topics related to equity and justice in childhood and adolescence.
  2. Enhance efforts to build coherence and to foster conceptual advances within and across the varied approaches to research on equity and justice.
  3. Foster the dissemination and implementation of findings that bear on programs and policies related to equity and justice at both national and international levels.
     

> Read the Equity and Justice Committee Spotlight - March 19, 2018

Committee Roster

Norma Perez-Brena, Ph.D., Co Chair2023-2027University of Arizona
Leo Wilton, Ph.D., Co Chair 2025-2029State University of New York at Binghamton
Christina Albina Rowley, Ph.D. 2025-2027San Diego State University
Eve E. Chen, Ph.D. 2023-2027National Tsing Hua University
Samantha Francois, Ph.D. 2025-2029Clark University
Jihee Im, Ph.D. 2023-2027The Pennsylvania State University
Stefanie Martinez-Fuentes, Ph.D. 2025-2029University of Arizona
Michael Alan Medina, Ph.D.2023-2027Boston University
Ursula Moffitt, Ph.D.2025-2029University of New Mexico
Soojin Oh Park, Ph.D.2023-2027University of Washington
   
   
Paul Poteat, Ph.D., Governing Council Representative 2025-2027 Boston College
Juan Romero-Casillas, Staff Liaison Society for Research in Child Development



 

 

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