Title: Intersectionality, discriminatory experiences, and adolescent health: Preliminary insights and complications
Date: Friday, December 6, 2019
Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Location: NUR 4.180 | School of Nursing | 1710 Red River St., Austin, Texas
Light lunch (sandwich tray) will be provided. Bring your own beverage.
Speaker: Aprile Benner, PhD
Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Sciences
Research Area: child and adolescent development; marginalization and discrimination; schools; stratification systems
Dr. Aprile Benner’s substantive research interests center on the development of low-income and race/ethnic minority youth, investigating how social contexts influence experiences of marginalization and discrimination, school transitions, and developmental outcomes during adolescence. As a developmental psychologist, the core of her research program is a fundamental developmental question—what are the continuities and changes in the social, emotional, and cognitive growth and maturation of young people? Reflecting her training in educational demography, she works to answer this question with an awareness of how such developmental patterns are embedded in the groups, contexts, and social structures of society.
Dr. Benner holds a Bachelor Degree from Vanderbilt University and a Master Degree from Perdue University. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2007.
Contact: Call us at (512) 471-9910 or email us at CHPR@mail.nur.utexas.edu.
Event Sponsored by St. David’s CHPR | Co-sponsored by TCRSS