SRCD Latinx Caucus Award Winners
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2025 Award Winners
Mid-Career Award - Dr. Linda C. Halgunseth
Her research focuses on culturally sensitive measurement of Latinx parenting, inclusive practices in family engagement, and socio-cultural influences on parenting, parent-child interactions, and child development.
Her work also examines children’s health and well-being in African, European, and Latin American families.
Former SRCD Latinx Caucus Chair
Early Career Awards - Dr. Josefina Bañales
Her research examines how racially and ethnically minoritized youth develop beliefs, feelings, and actions that challenge racism (i.e., youth critical racial consciousness development).
In collaboration with youth, schools, parents, and community organizations, she co-creates opportunities that facilitate youths’ critical racial consciousness development.
Early Career Awards - Dr. Fiorella Carlos Chavez
Her work focuses on the mental and physical implications of work and family-related stressors, migration decisions, and food insecurity among [im]migrant Latino adolescents and families in the U.S.
In her Migrant Youth Health and Wellbeing Lab with her team of undergraduate and graduate students, they aim to learn more about the occupational safety conditions and household responsibilities of Latino adolescents in Arizona and Florida agriculture.
Dissertation Awards - Wendy de los Reyes
Her dissertation explored: (1) How do Latinx immigrant-origin youth conceptualize and participate in critical civic engagement (CCE, i.e., civically engaged behaviors aimed to transform systems of inequality)? (2) How do mentors shape their CCE? and (3) How do adults hinder their CCE?
Results showed that participants’ CCE:
Encompassed actions that raised social consciousness and established collective pressure.
Was positively shaped by natural mentors who modeled community engagement and activism, provided emotional support, equipped youth through instrumental support, provided space for reflection and dialogue, and arranged opportunities for action.
Could be impeded by adults who discourage dialogue, minimize youth concerns about social issues, and become barriers to action.
Raymond Buriel Distinguished Leadership Award - Barbara Rogoff
Her work investigates cultural variation in children's learning processes and how communities organize opportunities for children to learn in everyday life, with special interest in Mexican and Indigenous-heritage communities of the Americas.
Incoming President of Division 7 (Developmental) of APA.
Former SRCD Latinx Caucus Member-at-Large
2023 Awards Winners
Mid-Career Award - Dr. Carmen R. Valdez
Early Career Awards - Dr. Claudia Lugo-Candelas
Early Career Awards - Dr. Lucía Alcalá
Dissertation Awards - Sarah Rendón García
Dissertation Awards - Griselda Martinez
2021 Awards Winners
Mid-Career Award - Dr. Gabriela Livas Stein
Early Career Awards - Dr. Alan Meca
Dissertation Awards - Dr. Fernanda Cross
Dissertation Awards - Dr. Franklin Moreno
Dissertation Awards - Dr. M Dalal Safa
2019 Awards Winners
Mid-Career Award - Dr. Gigliana Melzi
Early Career Awards - Dr. Rebecca Covarrubias
Early Career Awards - Dr. Carlos Santos
Dissertation Awards - Dr. Fiorella Carlos Chavez
Dissertation Awards - Dr. Diamond Bravo
2017 Awards Winners
Early Career Award - Dr. Linda Halgunseth
Early Career Award - Dr. Natalia Palacios
Dissertation Award - Dr. Chelsea Derlan