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Appendix A: Biosketches
Pages 247-256

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From page 247...
... Duncan is part of a team conducting a random-assignment trial assessing impacts of income supplements on the cognitive development of infants born to poor mothers in four diverse U.S. communities.
From page 248...
... of Early Child and Youth Development, and the Family Life Project and evaluations of major early childhood policy initiatives. She has authored or co-authored over 150 peer-reviewed articles, served on review panels for the Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Institute of Education Sciences, and NICHD, as an associate editor for Child Development and Early Childhood Research Quarterly, and is a board member for the William T
From page 249...
... Her research expertise focuses on how social representations of race, culture, and social class influence the development of self, psychological wellbeing, and educational attainment as well as on how to design interventions that reconfigure spaces to improve outcomes for racial minority and lowincome students. Fryberg testified before the U.S.
From page 250...
... , is lead author on multiple AAP policy statements and technical reports, including Poverty and Child Health, and has received the AAP Health Equity Award. Her advocacy work has been featured in news outlets, radio shows, and podcasts, including for the National Public Radio show and NBC Nightly News.
From page 251...
... Her areas of research include race and inequality, housing, urban politics, poverty, education, criminal legal studies, and Black communities. Pattillo is the author of two award-winning books -- Black Picket Fences: Privilege and Peril among the Black Middle Class and Black on the Block: The Politics of Race and Class in the City; she also is co-editor of Imprisoning America: The Social Effects of Mass Incarceration and co-editor of a two-issue volume on monetary sanctions in the criminal legal system.
From page 252...
... His research focuses on public policy issues involving labor markets, including overtime pay regulation, the experiences of immigrants, and obstacles to the economic progress of minority groups. Much of Trejo's recent work analyzes patterns of socioeconomic mobility among the U.S.born descendants of contemporary immigrant groups, and one strand of this work explores how selective intermarriage and ethnic identification bias assessments of intergenerational progress for Hispanics and Asians.
From page 253...
... STAFF AND CONSULTANTS NATACHA BLAIN serves as the senior board director of the Board on Children, Youth, and Families and the Committee on Law and Justice at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. She has served as a supreme court fellow, chief counsel to senator Dick Durbin on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and lead strategic advisor for the Children's Defense Fund's Cradle to Prison Pipeline Campaign.
From page 254...
... Gootman has worked as a senior program officer for both the Board on Children, Youth, and Families and the Food and Nutrition Board, directing several studies on topics including adolescent risk behavior, adolescent health, teen driving, food marketing to children and youth, youth development programs, and the impact of work on children and youth in low-income families. Her work has focused on child and family policy for low-income families, including welfare reform, child care, child health, youth development, teen pregnancy prevention, and youth sports.
From page 255...
... Most recently Nalamada served as acting director for the Forum for Children's Well-Being. She previously worked for a number of years within the National Academies' Health and Medicine Division and the Policy and Global Affairs Division, developing and supporting activities within the Board on Global Health and the Board on Higher Education and Workforce including the Committee on Defense Research at Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Other Minority Institutions; Minority Serving Institutions America's Underutilized Resource for Strengthening the STEM Workforce; and Forum on Public-Private Partnerships for Global Health and Safety.


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