Racial Identity: A Promising Protective Factor for Minoritized Populations | Torrance Festival of Ideas
Sycarah Fisher
This talk will focus on the role of racial identity in protecting youth from negative outcomes including low academic achievement and poor mental health. Further, attendees will be exposed to ways to foster racial identity development for the youth in their lives.
Sycarah Fisher, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of school psychology at the University of Georgia’s Mary Frances Early College of Education. Her research focuses on mental health and substance use in minoritized populations.
- Start: 23 April 2021
- End: 23 April 2021
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- Location: N/A , , United States