How Racial Identity Shapes Academic and Personal Success | HGSE Faculty Adriana Umaña-Taylor

Exploring race and ethnicity in the classroom can influence academic outcomes, mental health, and overall well-being in teens. Professor Adriana Umaña-Taylor work focuses on under understanding how individual and contextual factors - including ethnic-racial identity - interact to inform adolescents' development and affect academic success. She developed the Identity Project, a school-based intervention curriculum that engages adolescents in the developmental processes of ethnic-racial identity exploration and resolution.
Learn more about the Identity Project: umana-taylorlab.gse.harvard.e...