The Distinguished Visiting Scholar Keynote series continues with a noon, May 3 presentation by Deborah Rivas-Drake, professor of education and psychology at the University of Michigan.
The lunch-hour talk, which is free and open to the public, will explore “Promoting Socio-emotional Development in Racially Minoritized Youth.” The event is co-sponsored by the Department of Child, Youth and Family Studies and the College of Education and Human Sciences, with support from the CYFS Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging Committee.
Rivas-Drake is director of the Contexts of Academic + Socioemotional Adjustment Lab. Her work focuses on illuminating promising practices that disrupt racism and xenophobia and help set diverse young people on trajectories of positive contribution to their schools and communities.
