Our research addresses questions that extend to four broad categories of social institutions often associated with youth inequality, violence, vulnerability, and marginalization:
Families
Schools
Communities
Juvenile Justice System
Moreover, our research primarily focuses on investigating and ameliorating hurdles, barriers, and vulnerabilities that are often faced by:
Racial and Ethnic Minority Youth
Children of Immigrant Families
Girls and Gender Non-Conforming Youth
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) Youth
Urban and Rural Youth
Low-Income Youth
Youth with Disabilities/Special Needs
Youth Involved in the Child Welfare and/or Juvenile Justice System
Victimized and At Risk Youth
International
Intersectionality is based on the premise that identity categories, such as race, ethnicity, gender, family, culture, socio-economic status, sexuality, and so on interact in complex ways that influence how individuals engage, participate, and interact with the social and cultural world in which s/he lives. Intersectionality also holds that interacting identity categories are indicators and proxies for structural and institutional mechanism of inequality, violence, vulnerability, and marginalization.
Families
Schools
Communities
Juvenile Justice System
Moreover, our research primarily focuses on investigating and ameliorating hurdles, barriers, and vulnerabilities that are often faced by:
Racial and Ethnic Minority Youth
Children of Immigrant Families
Girls and Gender Non-Conforming Youth
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) Youth
Urban and Rural Youth
Low-Income Youth
Youth with Disabilities/Special Needs
Youth Involved in the Child Welfare and/or Juvenile Justice System
Victimized and At Risk Youth
International
Intersectionality is based on the premise that identity categories, such as race, ethnicity, gender, family, culture, socio-economic status, sexuality, and so on interact in complex ways that influence how individuals engage, participate, and interact with the social and cultural world in which s/he lives. Intersectionality also holds that interacting identity categories are indicators and proxies for structural and institutional mechanism of inequality, violence, vulnerability, and marginalization.