Ritika Rastogi, PhD is a developmental-cultural psychologist and postdoctoral research fellow at Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School. She earned her bachelor's degree at Northwestern University and her doctorate in developmental psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research identifies factors and mechanisms to promote the mental health, coping, and socioemotional well-being of immigrant and racially marginalized young people with a particular focus on relational and organizational context effects. Honoring adolescents as active drivers of their own development, she is also interested in understanding how youth build their capacity to resist structural oppression and act for social change. Dr. Rastogi is passionate about equity and justice beyond research and has spent almost 10 years engaged in community advocacy and organizing on issues including racial, gender, educational, and youth justice.