Riana Anderson is a William T. Grant Scholar evaluating a clinical intervention that uses racial socialization to reduce the effect of discrimination on Black youth. Anderson has mentored more than 50 underrepresented students in summer, undergraduate, and graduate mentoring programs. Anderson will use this award to pursue formal mentorship training, implement a networked model of mentorship, and develop skills to prioritize slower paced productivity that supports healthy functioning within project management planning. Anderson’s mentee, Minh Duc Pham, is a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University. Pham’s goals include expanding his theoretical expertise in racial socialization, strengthening his intervention science skills, and developing bidirectional relationships with community-based organizations. Pham will support Anderson’s Scholars project and pursue independent research that explores the relationship between activism and racial socialization among Asian and Latinx parents. With Anderson’s guidance, Pham will learn the literature on racial socialization and intervention science while integrating his focus on activism, assist with a randomized controlled trial that examines the relationship between racial socialization and Black youth’s activism, and use latent growth modeling to analyze youth outcomes following the intervention. Pham will take the lead in manuscript development to build a stronger, interdisciplinary publication record in preparation for a tenure-track job search.
With this award, Anderson will pursue formal mentorship training, implement a networked model of mentorship, and develop skills to prioritize slower paced productivity that supports healthy functioning within project management planning.
