A Bit About Me 

​​I am currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Adolescent Ethnic-Racial Identity Development lab under the mentorship and leadership of Dr. Adriana Umaña-Taylor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Through this role, I support the Identity Project Global (IP Global) Network, a community of scholars across the U.S., Europe, and South America committed to fostering ethnic-racial identity development and positive youth development during the period of adolescence. I also substantively contribute to an ongoing project investigating the impact of an ethnic-racial based intervention on biological and psychological outcomes. 

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During my doctoral program at Harvard University, I worked as a research assistant in the Adolescent Ethnic-Racial Identity Development lab, engaging in multiple longitudinal mixed-methods projects. I contributed to the development and facilitation of the Equipping Educators for Equity through Ethnic-Racial Identity (E4) professional development program, as well as assisted with quantitative, qualitative, and observational data collection, cleaning, and analysis for the related multi-year multi-site research project. I also assisted with the development of and served as program manager for the Identity Project Fellowship, which recruited, selected, and trained graduate students on culturally sustaining pedagogy, observation data collection, and teacher support during the academic year of 2022-2023.

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During my master’s program in Prevention Science and Practice, I worked as a research assistant on a research-practice partnership and investigated how ethnoracially marginalized adolescents perceive natural mentors supporting their ethnic-racial identity development. Before entering the research world, I was trained as a secondary history teacher and taught high school and middle school U.S. and World History. During this time, I carried out two action research projects examining the impact of culturally relevant pedagogy on student engagement and the integration of Socratic Seminars in a middle school history curriculum.

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I currently live in Massachusetts with my spouse, three kids (including fraternal twins), and cat Oreo.