Profiles in "Families" Expertise Area

  • Wolchik is interested in developing, evaluating and optimizing programs for two types of at-risk situations: parental divorce and parental death.
  • Laura Hanish is Executive Director of the T. Denny Sanford Harmony Institute where she advances children's relationships and well-being.
  • Berkel studies health equity and the dissemination & implementation of evidence-based preventive interventions
  • Dr. Hart is a Clinical Psychology Instructor in the ASU Department of Psychology and is a private practice Clinical Psychologist.
  • Michelle received her PhD in Family and Human Development at ASU and is currently postdoctoral research scholar working with Dr. Nilda Flores-Gonzalez on the Arizona Youth Identity Project.
  • 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.
  • 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.