Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Wesleyan University
About
Andrea Negrete is an assistant professor of Psychology at Wesleyan University. She received her PhD in community Psychology at the University of Virginia. As a community and developmental psychologist, Dr. Negrete takes a strength-based approach to examine how immigrant youth and young adults cope with and resist systems of oppression that shape their everyday lives during developmental transitions.
Current Work:
Dr. Negrete's is currently exploring how immigrant young adults in a new immigrant destination are being impacted by and resisting unjust immigration policies and rhetoric. Dr. Negrete's work also examines the role of schools and peers in immigrant youths' ethnic-racial identity development, understanding of structural inequality, and engagement in social actions to disrupt injustice impacting their communities.
Research Area(s):
- immigrant-origin youth; ethnic-racial identity; critical consciousness; immigration; racial socialization
