Child Development in a Diverse Majority Lectures Series – Deborah Rivas-Drake and Melanie Killen

It is expected that by 2044, the United States will become a majority-minority society, with Non-Hispanic Whites comprising less than half of the U.S. population. Children under the age of 18 will be majority-minority in 2020. As the nation prepares for this transition, the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) has launched an annual Lecture Series entitled Child Development in a Diverse Majority Society. This webinar marks the third annual lecture in the series and is being held in collaboration with SRCD’s Ethnic & Racial Issues Committee and the organizers of the SRCD special topic meeting, “Construction of the ‘Other’: Development, Consequences, and Applied Implications of Prejudice and Discrimination” scheduled for May 2022.

Invited Lectures:
"When the Goal is Racial Justice: Learning from Youth, Families, and Educators" presented by Deborah Rivas-Drake, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology and Education at the University of Michigan

"Developing Inclusive Youth: Harnessing Social Cognition about Exclusion to Reduce Prejudice and Bias" presented by Melanie Killen, Ph.D., Professor of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology, Professor of Psychology (Affiliate), and Program Director for Human Development at the University of Maryland

Lauren Christine Mims, Ph.D., (Discussant and Moderator) Assistant professor in the Department of Educational Psychology at Ball State University

Introduction By:
Martha (Marty) Zaslow, Ph.D., SRCD’s Interim Executive Director
Cynthia García Coll, Ph.D., Universidad de Puerto Rico