Invited Program

Subject to change.

Native American & Indigenous Children's Development (Thursday, March 23 | 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. | Room A)

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

Racial & Economic Justice (Saturday, March 25 | 1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. | Room A)

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

Racial & Economic Justice (Thursday, March 23 | 5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. | Room D)

• Baby's First Years Study (Katherine Magnuson*, Kimberly Noble, Lisa Gennetian*, Greg Duncan, Nathan Fox, Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Sarah Halpern-Meekin)
  *presenter
• 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 (Friday, March 24 | 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. | Room A)

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

Centering the Voices of Youth Activists in the Fight for Climate Justice (Saturday, March 25 | 8:15 a.m. - 9:45 a.m. | Room D)

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

Language Diversity in Development and Learning (Friday, March 24 | 1:45 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. | Room A)

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

Centering Race & Culture: Identity (Friday, March 24 | 8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. | Room A)

• Shose Kessi, University of Cape Town
• Tiffany Yip, Fordham University

Subject to change.

Research-Practice-Partnership & the Science-Practice-Policy Nexus (Thursday, March 23 | 11:45 a.m. - 1:15 p.m. | Room C)

• 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 (Saturday, March 25 | 11:45 a.m. - 1:15 p.m. | Room C)

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

Moderator: Tiffany Yip, Fordham University

Centering Race & Culture in Developmental Science: Native American/Indigenous Child Development (Friday, March 24 | 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. | Room C)

• 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 (Friday, March 24 | 10:15 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. | Room C)

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

Subject to change.

Displacement & Migration: Positive Child Development (Friday, March 24 | 10:15 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. | Room D)

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

Moderator: Carola Suarez-Orozco, Harvard University

Environmental Justice (Saturday, March 25 | 11:45 a.m. - 1:15 p.m. | Room D)

• 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 (Thursday, March 23 | 11:45 a.m. - 1:15 p.m. | Room D)

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

Moderator: Meg Bishop, University of Texas at Austin

Civic & Political Engagement in Uncertain Times (Friday, March 24 | 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. | Room D)

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

Moderator: Scott Seider, Boston College

Developmental Neuroscience (Thursday, March 23 | 3:15 p.m.- 4:45 p.m. | Room D)

• Joan Luby, Washington University in St. Louis
• Nim Tottenham, Columbia University
• Kathrin Cohen Kadosh, University of Surrey

Moderator: Adriana Galván, University of California, Los Angeles