Dr. Wachter's goal is to generate applied research for local, national, and international practitioners and policy makers to alleviate the psychosocial consequences of forced migration and violence against women.

Cory A. Buckband, Ph.D. is a 2024 graduate in Educational Policy & Evaluation at MLFTC. He has taught undergraduate and graduate courses on Educational Language Policy and Diversity in Family & Community Engagement.

Cassandra Cotton is a family demographer whose work investigates family dynamics and kinship in sub-Saharan Africa, and romance and dating among older adults in the US.

Helping businesses build better UX teams, UXers build better careers, and laying the foundations to align user needs with business needs to inspire better data-driven decision making.

Yalda M. Kaveh is an assistant professor of Bilingual Education at MLFTC. Her work focuses on language policy, bi/multilingualism in (im)migrant families, family engagement in education, and culturally sustaining pedagogies.

Flores-González' current research explores the effects of racialization on the ways young adults understand national belonging.

Marcus is a second year Sociology Ph.D. student. His work focuses on the NBA, Black community empowerment, and racial justice. He’s currently works as Research Assistant at the Center for the Study of Guns in Society.