Release date: March 3, 2025
For the final Black History Month episode of Talking About Kids, I want to explore steps that we all can take to help protect Black students from the harm caused by gendered and racial stereotypes in the classroom. As you will hear from my guest, the celebrated scholar Sheretta Butler-Barnes, the things that benefit Black students actually benefit all students. Sheretta is the Dean’s Distinguished Professorial Scholar in the Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis, where she also is the Principal Investigator for the Black Families, Racism, & Resilience Lab. More information about Sheretta is below.
Biography of Sheretta Butler-Barnes
Dr. Sheretta Butler-Barnes is a developmental psychologist and has expertise and scholarly work on the impact of racism and the use of culturally strength-based assets on the health and wellbeing outcomes of Black American families. She is a Professor and the Dean’s Distinguished Professorial Scholar at the Washington University in St. Louis (Wash U) Brown School with affiliations in African and African American Studies and the Division of Data and Computational Sciences. During the 2023-24 academic year, she was the Inaugural Sojourner Truth Visiting Professor of Racial and Social Justice at Rutgers University School of Social Work. Butler-Barnes received her PhD and MA from Wayne State University in psychology and a BS in psychology from Michigan State University. Dr. Butler-Barnes completed her postdoctoral training at the Center for the Study of Black Youth in Context at the University of Michigan. The two lines of her research agenda include 1) Black families and Racial Justice Project, which is a mixed methodological investigation of Black families' vulnerability to or resilience against marginalization, focusing on parenting practices and adolescent developmental trajectories, and 2) Equity for Black Women and Girls Project which focuses on advancing equity for women and girls of color by identifying risk and protective factors in learning spaces and creating culturally responsive programming that promotes resiliency.
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Sheretta Butler-Barnes
Black Families, Racism, and Resilience (BFRR) Lab
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