Meet the Speakers
Event
Innovations in Inquiry: Implications for Practice and Policy [Webinar]
Moderator:
Alexandrea R. Golden, Ph.D.
Alexandrea R. Golden, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Memphis. She earned her doctorate in Clinical-Community Psychology at the University of South Carolina and completed her postdoctoral fellowship at Cleveland State University in the Center for Urban Education. Dr. Golden’s scholarship focuses on the resilience and positive development of racially-minoritized youth who experience racism with a focus on Black adolescents. Her work focuses on three interdisciplinary lines of research including: (1) school racial climate, (2) peer racial socialization, and (3) critical consciousness. Dr. Golden is committed to empowering marginalized youth and amplifying their voices and experiences through her translation and community-engaged research and practice.
Presenters:
Josefina Bañales, Ph.D.
Josefina Bañales, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Community and Applied Developmental Psychology Area at the University of Illinois, Chicago. Her research examines how racially and ethnically minoritized youth develop beliefs, feelings, and actions that challenge racism (i.e., youth critical racial consciousness development). In collaboration with youth, schools, parents, and community organizations, she co-creates opportunities that facilitate youths’ critical racial consciousness development. Dr. Bañales infuses her personal experiences as a Mexican American woman who is a first-generation high school, college, and doctoral student from the Southwest side of Chicago with her community-engaged research with youth of color in schools and community organizations.
Brandon Yoo, Ph.D.
Brandon Yoo, Ph.D. is an associate professor of Asian Pacific American Studies in the School of Social Transformation and the School of Social and Family Dynamics at Arizona State University. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. Drawing on Critical Race theory, Dr. Yoo’s academic work broadly focuses on unique racialized risk, resiliency and resistance, and their psychological correlates among racially minoritized youth and families (including Asian Americans and multiracial people). In collaboration with students and colleagues across disciplines, Dr. Yoo publishes on topics of perceived racism, internalization of the model minority myth, acculturation/enculturation, ethnic and racial identity, ethnic and racial socialization, critical consciousness, and measurement development. His recent work also includes development of new measures, Support for Black Lives Matter and Asian American Racial Identity, to understand how different minoritized groups engage in cross-racial solidarity work.