Youth Research Council fellows Dyhemia Cummings, Natale Gray, Sohan Jama, Oaklen Kalinichenko, Nora Kurtishi, Bethlehem Tekle, and Gigi Ziboukh attended the 2023 annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). AERA's Mission Statement, according to their website, reads: "The American Educational Research Association (AERA), a national research society, strives to advance knowledge about education, to encourage scholarly inquiry related to education, and to promote the use of research to improve education and serve the public good."
The conference took place in Chicago, IL, April 13-16, 2023. There, fellows presented a poster detailing the research project YRC has been conducting for the last two years, which asked the research questions:
- What are the mental health effects of racial and ethnic microagggressions on high school students in Northern Virginia? and
- How do high school students respond to and resist racial and ethnic microaggressions in school contexts? The Youth Research Council continues to amaze us with their outstanding work and professionalism.
May 25, 2023