I am an Assistant Professor at the Department of Psychology at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. I received my Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology with a concentration in Advanced Quantitative Analyses from New York University, and I completed my postdoctoral training at the University of Pittsburgh. My research includes a series of first authored publications in Developmental Science, Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, American Psychologist, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), which have been featured in the Huffington Post, Forbes, and the New York Times. I have also received numerous prestigious awards, including the Rising Star Award from the Association for Psychological Science (APS), the Boyd McCandless Award from the American Psychological Association (APA), the Social Policy Publication Award from the Society for Research on Adolescence (SRA), and early-stage investigator awards from the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research (ABMR) and the American Psychosomatic Society (APS). I serve on the editorial boards for the Journal of Research on Adolescence, the journal for Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, and the Journal of Educational Psychology.