Urban Girls Revisited: Building Strengths

About the Contributors

About the Contributors Amy Alberts, M.A., Institute for Applied Research in Youth Development , Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development, Tufts University, Medford, MA. Natasha Alexander, Urban Academy High School, New York, NY. Murray Anderson, M.A., Department of Sociology, University of Victoria , Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Elizabeth Banister, Ph.D., School of Nursing, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Cecilia Benoit, Ph.D., Department of Sociology, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Kristen Boelcke-Stennes, M.A., Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN. Ana Mari Cauce, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. Elise D. Christiansen, Department of Counseling, Developmental, and Educational Psychology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA. Brianna Coffino, Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota , Minneapolis, MN. Catherine L. Costigan, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. 361 Karin Coyle, Ph.D., Director of Research, ETR Associates, Scotts Valley, CA. Anita A. Davis, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN. Jill Denner, Ph.D., Department of Developmental Psychology, Teachers ’ College, Columbia University, New York, NY. Sumru Erkut, Ph.D., Wellesley Centers for Women, Wellesley, MA. Kenyatta Etchison, Social Development Research Group, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. Michelle Fine, Ph.D., Department of Social/Personality Psychology, Graduate Center of the City University of New York, New York, NY. Yulika Forman, Ph.D., LMHC Institute for Applied Research in Youth Development, Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development, Tufts University, Medford, MA. Emily Genao, Fordham University, New York, NY. Mikael Jansson, Ph.D., Department of Sociology, University of Victoria , Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Bonnie J. Leadbeater, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Chalane E. Lechuga, M.S., Department of Sociology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM. Stacey J. Lee, Ph.D., Educational Policy Studies, University of Wisconsin , Madison, WI. Richard M. Lerner, Ph.D., Institute for Applied Research in Youth Development, Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development, Tufts University, Medford, MA. 362 About the Contributors Nancy López, Ph.D., Department of Sociology, University of New Mexico , Albuquerque, NM. Ann S. Masten, Ph.D. Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN. Jennifer McCormick, Ph.D., Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, CA. Jennifer Pastor, Ph.D., Department of Social and Personality Psychology , the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, New York, NY. Erin Phelps, Ed.D., Institute for Applied Research in Youth Development , Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development, Tufts University, Medford, MA. Leslie R. Prescott, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN. Jean E. Rhodes, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts , Boston, MA. Ritch C. Savin-Williams, Professor and Chair, Department of Human Development, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. Anne Shaffer, Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota , Minneapolis, MN. Renée Spencer, School of Social Work, Boston University, Boston, MA. Pamela R. Smith, MS, Department of Sociology, Michigan State University , East Lansing, MI. Carl S. Taylor, Ph.D., Department of Sociology, Michigan State University , East Lansing, MI. Jill McLean Taylor, Ed.D., Associate Professor, Departments of Women’s Studies, and Education, Simmons College, Boston, MA. About the Contributors 363 Virgil A. Taylor, Project Manager, Michigan Gang Research Project, Detroit, MI. María Elena Torre, Department of Social/Personality Psychology, Graduate Center of the City University of New York, New York, NY. Allison J. Tracy, Ph.D., Wellesley Centers for Women, Wellesley, MA. Carmen N. Veloria, Department of Language, Literacy and Culture, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA. Martina C. Verba, L.C.S.W., M.P.H., Kaiser Permanente, Redwood City, CA. Janie Victoria Ward, M.Ed., Ed.D., Africana Studies Department, Simmons College, Boston, MA. Niobe Way, Ed.D., Department of Applied Psychology, School of Education , New York University, New York, NY. 364 About the Contributors ...