Mariah Contreras, PhD, completed her doctoral training in the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development at Tufts University in 2015. She holds a BA from Colgate University in educational studies and art and art history and an MA from Tufts in applied child development. Her dissertation, Young Mothers' Early Ethnic-Racial Socialization and Children's School Readiness, was supported by a National Academy of Education/ Spencer Dissertation Fellowship. She is currently a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation New Connections for Increasing Diversity Fellow. Mariah's program of research focuses on linguistically and ethnically diverse populations in the US context; with specific aims to document the development of adaptive parenting processes (e.g. ethnic-racial socialization) and parent-child dynamics across early childhood, and understand how these processes link to young children's well-being and school readiness.