Asset-Based Community Promise Zone to Increase Educational Opportunities

Posted by Liz McMahon on Jun 09, 2017

This week's program will focus on building community and coalition efforts for collective impact.

Biography ~ Dr. Andrea Romero

Dr. Romero has a Ph.D. in Applied Social Psychology, and is Fitch Nesbitt Professor in Family Studies and Human Development at the University of Arizona. Dr. Romero is the Director for the Frances McClelland Institute for Children, Youth and Families, which is a research institute that is a catalyst to create and disseminate research that improves the lives of children, youth and families.

Dr. Romero's research is interdisciplinary and represents social psychology, community psychology, family studies and human development. Dr. Romero has written two books on adolescent health “Youth-Community Partnerships for Adolescent Alcohol Prevention” and “Preventing Adolescent Depression and Suicide Among Latinas”. Her research primarily examines social, cultural, and familial factors that are associated with adolescent health and development. A goal of her work is to improve the health of young people, and she has worked toward this goal in partnership with youth and community leaders. She uses a participatory action research methodological strategy in most of her work in order to center youth and community voices. Her current funded work by the Spencer Foundation is examining how perceptions of equality are associated with civic engagement among young adults.