🚨 New article with infographic! Kindly retweet! The full article is open-access and available here: doi.org/10.1037/amp0...

Academic family, let's use our energy to write articles challenging these policy changes! In a new article coming soon, I used the peer review as my platform for resistance on a topic that matters to me. We need to interrogate harmful legislation and make sure science speaks truth to power. 📚✊🏽

My academic mood nowadays

If you’re in Seattle for #SBSM2025Seattle, come check out a talk I’m giving tomorrow morning!

Me and every professor at the moment

Is puberty (as a biomarker of adolescence) related with identity development? In an open-access article in the American Psychologist, colleagues and I found that sexual minority self-identification and pubertal timing mutually inform one another across two samples of adolescents.

Last day of the semester! I’m glad to have had these stars in my third time teaching the class, Race and the Life Course! 🧑🏻‍🏫

Growing up low income, I could only dream of doing the things I do today. This year, I’m thankful I’ve grown to be someone I can be proud of becoming.

📍Burj Khalifa and 📍Miracle Garden

Resilience isn’t entirely about working hard but also equally about how much you recharge and recover.

✅ Abu Dhabi, UAE

🚨 In a new article, youth reporting more racial/ethnic discrimination than their siblings showed more advanced pubertal timing (an index of accelerated biological aging). Parents' racial/ethnic identity commitment weakened this discrimination-puberty link within the family!

✅ Another semester COMPLETE teaching my class, Race and the Life Course 🙌🏽

It’s 11 degrees today in Minneapolis, so I’m already missing Costa Rica 🇨🇷 & Panama 🇵🇦 #Thanksgiving

I’m debating if I should be THAT academic with a different haircut in each American Psychologist article…

A few memories from my recent trip to Finland! I’m definitely branching out to international conferences to strengthen interdisciplinary collaborations and (enthusiastically) visit places I’ve never been to!