Invited Program

Subject to change.

Native American & Indigenous Children's Development

• Megan Bang, Northwestern University
• Seth Oppong, University Of Botswana

Racial & Economic Justice

• Linda Burton, University of California, Berkeley
• Velma McBride Murry, Vanderbilt University

Racial & Economic Justice

• Baby's First Years Study (Katherine Magnuson, Kimberly Noble, Lisa Gennetian, Greg Duncan, Nathan Fox, Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Sarah Halpern-Meekin)
• Commentaries by:
  • Iheoma U. Iruka, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • Lisa Berlin, University of Maryland
  • Phil Fisher, Stanford University

Displacement/Migration: Refugee Families and Adaptations

• Sarah Dryden-Peterson, Harvard University
• Hirokazu Yoshikawa, New York University

Environmental Justice & Youth Perspectives 

• Josefina Bañales, University of Pittsburgh
• Gale Sinatra, University of Southern California
• Panel of Youth Activists 

Displacement & Migration: Language Diversity in Development and Learning

• Sonali Nag, University of Oxford
• Julie Washington, University of California at Irvine

Subject to change.

Research-Practice-Partnership & the Science-Practice-Policy Nexus

• Leah Austin, National Black Child Development Institute
• Stephen Russell, University of Texas at Austin
• Ruth Lopez Turley, Rice University

Moderator: Vivian Tseng, Foundation for Child Development

Centering Race & Culture in Developmental Science: Theoretical Perspectives

• Jose Causadias, Arizona State University
• Linda Juang, University of Potsdam
• Onnie Rogers, Northwestern University

Moderator: TBD

Centering Race & Culture in Developmental Science: Native American/Indigenous Child Development

• Melissa Walls, John Hopkins
• Nancy Whitesell, University of Colorado
• Community Partners TBA

Centering Race & Culture in Developmental Science: Native American/Indigenous Children’s Educational Experiences

• Ananda Marin, University of California, Los Angeles
• Tarajean Yazzie-Mintz, First Light Education Project
• Community PartnersTBA

Subject to change.

Displacement & Migration: Positive Child Development 

• Deborah Johnson, Michigan State University
• Mark Jordans, King’s College London
• Laura Taylor, University College Dublin

Moderator: Carola Suarez-Orozco, Harvard University

Environmental Justice

• Cassandra Davis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Betty Lai, Boston College
• Tara Leytham Powell, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Moderator: Joy Osofsky, Louisiana State University

Developmental Considerations for Transgender Children & Youth

• Angelo Brandelli Costa, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul
• Selin Gülgöz, Fordham University
• Jenifer McGuire, University of Minnesota
• Kristina Olsen, Princeton University

Moderator: Meg Bishop, University of Texas at Austin

Civic & Political Engagement in Uncertain Times

• Elan Hope, Policy Research Associates Inc.
• Andrew Nalani, New York University
• James Sloam, Royal Holloway University

Moderator: Scott Seider, Boston College

Developmental Neuroscience

• Joan Luby, Washington University in St. Louis
• Nim Tottenham, Columbia University
• TBD

Moderator: Adriana Galván, University of California, Los Angeles