About
I am a developmental psychologist and research faculty member at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. I completed my graduate work studying adolescent development and foster care at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a postdoctoral fellowship in Adolescent Medicine at Cincinnati Children’s. I am interested in research addressing the transition to adulthood, and what aspects of involvement in foster care contribute to poor developmental outcomes for adolescents.
Ultimately, I am fascinated by the social mechanisms and interventions that we construct to help young people prepare for adulthood, and how those mechanisms help or do not help to support success in adulthood. This happens frequently for teens in foster care. The aspects of foster care that are intended to support independence (e.g., living in your own apartment, receiving money to budget on your own) should be helpful for young people gaining independence, but often teens still struggle and I want to understand why and how we can do a better job to help them with that transition.
Joined
October 2016
