Rosa I. Toro is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at California State University, Fresno. She earned her BA in Psychology from the University of Southern California (USC), and attended the University of California, Riverside where she earned her PhD in developmental psychology working under the direction of Nancy Guerra. Prior to coming to Fresno State, she was a MacArthur Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow and worked with Tama Leventhal at Tufts University on the development of a multi-city longitudinal study interested in examining the effects of housing on young children?s development. Her research focuses on the effect of contextual influences (e.g. acculturation, housing, and neighborhoods) on Latino immigrant families with the end goal of identifying and highlighting resiliency factors in order to promote children?s development. In 2016, she was awarded a federal SC-2 grant from NIH for a longitudinal study seeking to examine the associations involving parent-child acculturation differences, family functioning, and children?s socioemotional and health outcomes. She has served as a reviewer for journals such as: Child Development, Applied Developmental Science, Journal of Marriage and Family, Journal of Research on Adolescence (serving as Consulting Editor), and Journal of Family Issues, as well as for the SRCD biennial conference.