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Research paper thumbnail of Engaging Children in Defining Safe Spaces in Schools and Neighborhoods

Research paper thumbnail of Outcomes for underrepresented and misrepresented college students in service-learning classes: Supporting agents of change

Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, Sep 1, 2021

Research paper thumbnail of Moving Toward An Empowering Setting in a First Grade Classroom Serving Primarily Working Class and Working Poor Latina/o Children: An Exploratory Analysis

The Urban Review, Dec 1, 2015

Empowering settings are important places for people to develop leadership skills in order to enac... more Empowering settings are important places for people to develop leadership skills in order to enact social change. Yet, due to socio-cultural constructions of childhood in the US, especially constructions around working class and working poor children of Color, they are often not seen as capable or competent change agents, or in need of being in empowering settings. Based on a 9-month participant observation study of a first grade public charter school classroom in central California, this paper examines how one teacher used an alternative, artist-focused curriculum to take steps to facilitate a more empowering setting for her working class and working poor students, most of whom were Latina/o. We illustrate how this teacher worked to implement the components of an empowering setting within her classroom space: community building, peer-based support, meaningful roles, and shared leadership among her students. Student and teacher interviews are also used to triangulate findings. Implications include providing ways to assist young children as they become social change agents.

Research paper thumbnail of Promoting institutional change to support public psychology: Innovations and challenges at the University of California

American Psychologist, Nov 1, 2021

Community partnerships are vital for the co-production, implementation, and dissemination of prac... more Community partnerships are vital for the co-production, implementation, and dissemination of practice- and policy-relevant research to advance public psychology. Particularly in "Research 1" universities, the institutional infrastructure, culture, and criteria for faculty advancement are often a mismatch for impactful community-partnered research. Past and current efforts by psychologists and others at the University of California (UC) seek to promote partnerships, infrastructure, and practices for faculty development and advancement that align excellence and impact in scholarship with advancing the public mission of the UC and its campuses. Here, we delineate "partnered" public scholarship and provide an overview of mismatch between this scholarship and university structures. We then describe unique features of the UC and three cases of interdisciplinary partnerships to advance educational equity that illustrate how distinctive campuses and units engaged resources, deployed diverse strategies, and succeeded as well as failed to address challenges related to (a) how partnered scholarship is enacted, (b) supports to sustain the initiatives, and (c) faculty evaluation. We then consider lessons learned, implications, and ethical issues related to public psychology. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).

Research paper thumbnail of Participatory action research as movement toward radical relationality, epistemic justice, and transformative intervention: A multivocal reflection

American Psychological Association eBooks, 2023

Research paper thumbnail of Author response for "Critical realism methodology as a guiding framework for interdisciplinary theory enrichment: Reflections on a study of empowerment

Research paper thumbnail of Seeking utopia: Psychologies' waves toward decoloniality

American Journal of Community Psychology, Jul 19, 2023

Research paper thumbnail of Challenges for Latino Human Rights and Effects in Our Communities

Research paper thumbnail of Classism Experiences Questionnaire—Academe

Research paper thumbnail of The (un)reasonableness of reporting: Antecedents and consequences of reporting sexual harassment

Journal of Applied Psychology, Apr 1, 2002

Research paper thumbnail of Evolving Principles of a Social Psychology of Social Justice

Research paper thumbnail of Photovoice and House Meetings Within Participatory Action Research

Research paper thumbnail of “You gotta keep pushing”: Immigrant people regaining ontological security and withstanding coloniality

Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, May 1, 2023

Research paper thumbnail of Supporting children as change agents

Research paper thumbnail of Photovoice and House Meetings as Tools Within Participatory Action Research

Oxford University Press eBooks, Dec 1, 2015

Research paper thumbnail of Empowerment Evaluation Conducted by Fourth- and Fifth-Grade Students

SAGE Publications, Inc. eBooks, 2015

Research paper thumbnail of Borderlands Scale

Research paper thumbnail of “Success” in the borderlands: Measuring success for underrepresented and misrepresented college students

Journal of Diversity in Higher Education

Research paper thumbnail of Toward the democratization of knowledge: Using photovoice, social biography, and the “five whys” in YPAR with children

Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology

Objectives: We assessed if using a biographical method, social biography, alongside photovoice, a... more Objectives: We assessed if using a biographical method, social biography, alongside photovoice, and the Five Whys could facilitate critical dialogue in a youth participatory action research (YPAR) context. Method: In a YPAR program, we added social biography to photovoice and the Five Whys during the problem definition phase. We coded ethnographic fieldnotes to examine the quality of critical discourse. Participants were six 10-11 year old Latinx children, some from mixed-status families. Results: Social biography enlivened critical dialogue when children defined the problem for their project: the accountability of la migra, or Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Conclusions: Social biography is a valuable tool for democratizing knowledge production with children through a liberatory framework. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).

Research paper thumbnail of “Being a team of five strong women… we had to make an impression:” The College Math Academy as an intervention into mathematics education

American Journal of Community Psychology, 2021

This paper, a first‐person account, describes a community psychology‐aligned intervention into a ... more This paper, a first‐person account, describes a community psychology‐aligned intervention into a precalculus mathematics class at an Hispanic Serving Research Institution. The intervention was designed because the standard precalculus mathematics class had a high failure rate, especially for Latinx students, which was serving as a barrier for declaration of a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics major. The high failure rate indicates a structural problem that requires a structural intervention. The paper is coauthored with the teaching team, undergraduates who had taken the course, a graduate student who evaluated the class, and a community psychologist. We describe the ways that the new course, the College Math Academy, transformed the social environment through capacity building, providing access to valued resources for historically marginalized groups, facilitating opportunities to critique dominant power structures, prioritizing perspectives and experiences of people...

Research paper thumbnail of Engaging Children in Defining Safe Spaces in Schools and Neighborhoods

Research paper thumbnail of Outcomes for underrepresented and misrepresented college students in service-learning classes: Supporting agents of change

Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, Sep 1, 2021

Research paper thumbnail of Moving Toward An Empowering Setting in a First Grade Classroom Serving Primarily Working Class and Working Poor Latina/o Children: An Exploratory Analysis

The Urban Review, Dec 1, 2015

Empowering settings are important places for people to develop leadership skills in order to enac... more Empowering settings are important places for people to develop leadership skills in order to enact social change. Yet, due to socio-cultural constructions of childhood in the US, especially constructions around working class and working poor children of Color, they are often not seen as capable or competent change agents, or in need of being in empowering settings. Based on a 9-month participant observation study of a first grade public charter school classroom in central California, this paper examines how one teacher used an alternative, artist-focused curriculum to take steps to facilitate a more empowering setting for her working class and working poor students, most of whom were Latina/o. We illustrate how this teacher worked to implement the components of an empowering setting within her classroom space: community building, peer-based support, meaningful roles, and shared leadership among her students. Student and teacher interviews are also used to triangulate findings. Implications include providing ways to assist young children as they become social change agents.

Research paper thumbnail of Promoting institutional change to support public psychology: Innovations and challenges at the University of California

American Psychologist, Nov 1, 2021

Community partnerships are vital for the co-production, implementation, and dissemination of prac... more Community partnerships are vital for the co-production, implementation, and dissemination of practice- and policy-relevant research to advance public psychology. Particularly in "Research 1" universities, the institutional infrastructure, culture, and criteria for faculty advancement are often a mismatch for impactful community-partnered research. Past and current efforts by psychologists and others at the University of California (UC) seek to promote partnerships, infrastructure, and practices for faculty development and advancement that align excellence and impact in scholarship with advancing the public mission of the UC and its campuses. Here, we delineate "partnered" public scholarship and provide an overview of mismatch between this scholarship and university structures. We then describe unique features of the UC and three cases of interdisciplinary partnerships to advance educational equity that illustrate how distinctive campuses and units engaged resources, deployed diverse strategies, and succeeded as well as failed to address challenges related to (a) how partnered scholarship is enacted, (b) supports to sustain the initiatives, and (c) faculty evaluation. We then consider lessons learned, implications, and ethical issues related to public psychology. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).

Research paper thumbnail of Participatory action research as movement toward radical relationality, epistemic justice, and transformative intervention: A multivocal reflection

American Psychological Association eBooks, 2023

Research paper thumbnail of Author response for "Critical realism methodology as a guiding framework for interdisciplinary theory enrichment: Reflections on a study of empowerment

Research paper thumbnail of Seeking utopia: Psychologies' waves toward decoloniality

American Journal of Community Psychology, Jul 19, 2023

Research paper thumbnail of Challenges for Latino Human Rights and Effects in Our Communities

Research paper thumbnail of Classism Experiences Questionnaire—Academe

Research paper thumbnail of The (un)reasonableness of reporting: Antecedents and consequences of reporting sexual harassment

Journal of Applied Psychology, Apr 1, 2002

Research paper thumbnail of Evolving Principles of a Social Psychology of Social Justice

Research paper thumbnail of Photovoice and House Meetings Within Participatory Action Research

Research paper thumbnail of “You gotta keep pushing”: Immigrant people regaining ontological security and withstanding coloniality

Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, May 1, 2023

Research paper thumbnail of Supporting children as change agents

Research paper thumbnail of Photovoice and House Meetings as Tools Within Participatory Action Research

Oxford University Press eBooks, Dec 1, 2015

Research paper thumbnail of Empowerment Evaluation Conducted by Fourth- and Fifth-Grade Students

SAGE Publications, Inc. eBooks, 2015

Research paper thumbnail of Borderlands Scale

Research paper thumbnail of “Success” in the borderlands: Measuring success for underrepresented and misrepresented college students

Journal of Diversity in Higher Education

Research paper thumbnail of Toward the democratization of knowledge: Using photovoice, social biography, and the “five whys” in YPAR with children

Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology

Objectives: We assessed if using a biographical method, social biography, alongside photovoice, a... more Objectives: We assessed if using a biographical method, social biography, alongside photovoice, and the Five Whys could facilitate critical dialogue in a youth participatory action research (YPAR) context. Method: In a YPAR program, we added social biography to photovoice and the Five Whys during the problem definition phase. We coded ethnographic fieldnotes to examine the quality of critical discourse. Participants were six 10-11 year old Latinx children, some from mixed-status families. Results: Social biography enlivened critical dialogue when children defined the problem for their project: the accountability of la migra, or Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Conclusions: Social biography is a valuable tool for democratizing knowledge production with children through a liberatory framework. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).

Research paper thumbnail of “Being a team of five strong women… we had to make an impression:” The College Math Academy as an intervention into mathematics education

American Journal of Community Psychology, 2021

This paper, a first‐person account, describes a community psychology‐aligned intervention into a ... more This paper, a first‐person account, describes a community psychology‐aligned intervention into a precalculus mathematics class at an Hispanic Serving Research Institution. The intervention was designed because the standard precalculus mathematics class had a high failure rate, especially for Latinx students, which was serving as a barrier for declaration of a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics major. The high failure rate indicates a structural problem that requires a structural intervention. The paper is coauthored with the teaching team, undergraduates who had taken the course, a graduate student who evaluated the class, and a community psychologist. We describe the ways that the new course, the College Math Academy, transformed the social environment through capacity building, providing access to valued resources for historically marginalized groups, facilitating opportunities to critique dominant power structures, prioritizing perspectives and experiences of people...