Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Child Study and Human Development at Tufts University
About
Dr. Melissa Colón is research analyst at Tufts Interdisciplinary Evaluation Research Lab. Her evaluation projects critically examine how policies, practices, programs, and ideologies impact the developmental trajectories of people. She is a Boricua scholar-activist from Boston.
Current Work:
Dr. Melissa Colón work focuses on the schooling as a developmental context for Black and Latinx youth. Specifically, her work critically examines the how the schooling lives of adolescents are shaped by policies in practice that shaped by majoritarian ideologies of normative development. Her work asks us to pay attention to the importance of the sociocultural, historical, and political realities of communities relative to their developmental outcomes and trajectories.
Research Area Keyword(s):
Education inequities, teen parenting, Puerto Rican schools
