


NOTIFICATION JANETTER PROFESSIONAL
Her recent studies focus on testing the efficacy and effectiveness of the Identity Project developing professional development programming to prepare educators to implement the Identity Project with their students understanding how adolescents develop their ethnic and racial identities in the context of their peer relationships within the school setting testing how the negative physiological effects of race-based stress can be reduced by intervening in adolescents' ethnic-racial identity development and exploring the universal nature of ethnic-racial identity development as a promotive factor for adolescents in Latin American and European countries. She developed the Identity Project, a school-based intervention curriculum that engages adolescents in the developmental processes of ethnic-racial identity exploration and resolution. Grant Foundation, and the Spencer Foundation. She is Principal Investigator of multiple, longitudinal research projects funded by the National Science Foundation, the Institute of Education Sciences, the National Institutes of Health, the William T. Umaña-Taylor has successfully collaborated with school districts for over 20 years to design and implement large-scale, longitudinal, school-based data collection efforts with high school students. Her work seeks to apply developmental science in a manner that reduces ethnic-racial disparities in psychological and academic adjustment and, in turn, promotes social justice. Vitae/CV: Adriana Janette Umaña-Taylor.pdfįaculty Coordinator: Colleen Laude ProfileĪdriana Umaña-Taylor is the Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Professor of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Degree: Ph.D., University of Missouri-Columbia, (2001)Įmail:
