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Evandra Catherine
Assistant Professor
Arizona State University
Education/Degree:
1 Education (Virginia Commonwealth University)
About
Evandra Catherine is an assistant professor in the Early Childhood Education/Early Childhood Special Education program in the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University. She is also currently a member of the Preschool Exclusionary Discipline Study team at ASU. Her research broadly examines the intersections of race, culture, disability, emotional development, and the use of exclusionary discipline in early childhood education practice and policy with an emphasis on preschool-aged Black boys. She also focuses on the benefits of anti-bias curricula and early childhood education professional development frameworks including early childhood mental health consultation and practice-based coaching.
Current Work
Dr. Catherine's scholarship is focused on advancing equity, particularly reducing bias in early care and learning settings through early childhood mental health consultation and the use of emotion and culturally focused practices. She is currently working on a qualitative project to define the core activities that mental health consultants engage in and how these activities differ by setting. Additionally, Dr. Catherine works on various policy evaluation projects with the Children's Equity Project, an early childhood policy, research, and data initiative at Arizona State University that focuses on closing opportunity gaps and dismantling systemic racism in early care and learning settings.