Deborah Rivas-Drake
Location
2260 East Hall
530 Church Street
1404 Marsal Family School of Education Building
610 E. University Ave.
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1259
Deborah Rivas-Drake, Ph.D., is a Professor of Education and Psychology at the University of Michigan. Together with the Contexts of Academic + Socioemotional Adjustment (CASA) Lab, she examines how school, peer, family, and community settings can support adolescents in navigating issues related to race and ethnicity, and how these experiences inform young people’s academic, socioemotional, and civic development.
The overarching goal of her work is to illuminate promising practices that disrupt racism and xenophobia and that help set diverse young people on trajectories of positive contribution to their schools and communities. Her research has been funded by NSF, the Spencer Foundation, and the W.T. Grant Foundation. Her co-authored book, Below the Surface: Talking with Teens about Race, Ethnicity, and Identity (Princeton University Press), received the Social Policy Book Award from the Society for Research on Adolescence and the Eleanor Maccoby Award in Developmental Psychology from the American Psychological Association.
She is an invited contributor to the SRCD State of the Science report on Improving Intergroup Attitudes and Interactions among Youth, Chair of the SRCD Publications Committee, member of the Inclusion, Equity, and Social Justice Committee of SRA, and former Associate Editor of Developmental Psychology and Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology.
In addition to her academic publications, she has lent her expertise more broadly by collaborating with school leaders and district policymakers to develop translational activities for educators; in writings and webinars for parents and educators; and by consulting on race and ethnicity issues in youth for the Collaborative on Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL), Sesame Workshop, and Committee for Children.
Selected Publications
Discrimination, coping, and school belonging among Black, Latinx, and Asian American youth
Montoro, J., Kilday, J., Rivas-Drake, D., Ryan, A., & Umaña-Taylor, A. J. (in press). Discrimination, coping, and school belonging among Black, Latinx, and Asian American youth. Journal of Youth and Adolescence.
Inherently political? Associations of parent ethnic-racial socialization and sociopolitical discussions with Latinx youth's emergent civic engagement
Pinetta, B., Blanco Martinez, S., Cross, F. L., & Rivas-Drake, D. (2020). Inherently political? Associations of parent ethnic-racial socialization and sociopolitical discussions with Latinx youth's emergent civic engagement. American Journal of Community Psychology, 66(1-2), 94-105.
Bañales, J., Hoffman, A., Rivas-Drake, D., & Jagers, R. (2020). The development of ethnic-racial identity process and its relation to civic beliefs among Latinx and Black American adolescents. Journal of Youth and Adolescence. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-020-01254-6
Cross, F. L., Agi, A., Montoro, J., Medina, M., Pinetta, B., Miller, S., Tran, M., & Rivas-Drake, D. (2020). Illuminating ethnic-racial socialization among undocumented Latinx parents and its implications for adolescent psychosocial functioning. Developmental Psychology, 56(8), 1458-1474. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/dev0000826
Hidden populations: Uncovering the developmental experiences of minoritized communities across contexts
Witherspoon, D. P., Bámaca-Colbert, M., Stein, G. L., & Rivas-Drake, D. (2020). Hidden populations: Uncovering the developmental experiences of minoritized communities across contexts. Developmental Psychology.
Below the Surface: Talking with Teens about Race, Ethnicity, and Identity
Rivas-Drake, D., & Umaña-Taylor, A. (2019). Below the Surface: Talking with Teens about Race, Ethnicity, and Identity. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Transformative social and emotional learning (SEL): Toward SEL in the service of equity and excellence
Jagers, R., Rivas-Drake, D., & Williams, B. (2019). Transformative social and emotional learning (SEL): Toward SEL in the service of equity and excellence. Educational Psychologist. 54(3), 162-184.
Adolescent intergroup contact attitudes across peer networks in school: Selection, influence, and implications for cross-group friendships
Rivas-Drake, D., Schaefer, D., Saleem, M., Medina, M., & Jagers, R. (2019). Adolescent intergroup contact attitudes across peer networks in school: Selection, influence, and implications for cross-group friendships. Child Development.
School climate and ethnic-racial identity in school: A longitudinal examination of reciprocal associations
Camacho, T., Medina, M., Rivas-Drake, D., & Jagers, R. (2018). School climate and ethnic-racial identity in school: A longitudinal examination of reciprocal associations. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 28(1), 29-41.