Dr. Rivas-Drake is a Professor of Psychology and Education at the University of Michigan. Together with the CASA Lab, Dr. Rivas-Drake explores how adolescents navigate issues related to race and ethnicity in peer, family, and school settings and how these experiences inform their identity, academic, and socioemotional development. She seeks to illuminate promising practices that help set diverse young people on trajectories of positive contribution to their schools and communities. Her research appears in American Psychologist, Child Development, and Developmental Psychology, among other journals, and has been generously funded by the National Science Foundation, Spencer Foundation, and W.T. Grant Foundation. She is coauthor of the book, Below the Surface: Talking with Teens about Race, Ethnicity, and Identity (Princeton University Press).