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Lisette M. DeSouza
Associate Research Scientist
- Ph.D., Tufts University, Child Study and Human Development
- lisette[dot]desouza@wellesley[dot]edu
Areas of focus included: child and adolescent development, mixed-methods research, out-of-school time, social-emotional learning and positive youth development, contexts of human development
Lisette M. DeSouza, Ph.D., was an associate research scientist who had worked with scholars at the 妻友社区 in the , Family, Sexuality, and Communication Research Initiative, and Youth, Media & Wellbeing Research Lab. Her research and work focused on child and adolescent development, in particular how community contexts support the development of young people's skills and positive development.
DeSouza collaborated with schools and out-of-school time programs to investigate how program practices relate to youth competence, and how social-emotional learning shapes academic progress. She was also committed to documenting, addressing, and shifting structural inequities which are barriers to positive development.
See Lisette M. DeSouza's Projects
Selected Publications
- 21st Century Community Learning Centers Program Fiscal Year 2019 Year End Report. (2019). . DeSouza was a research contributor to the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.
- . (2020). Journal of Youth Development. Co-authored with the National Institute on Out-of-School Time.
- . (2019). Co-authored with James Jennings, Ph.D., et al.
- . (2016). Co-organized with Elise Harris Wilkerson, Ph.D., and Mimi Arbeit, Ph.D.
- . (2017). Co-authored with James Jennings, Ph.D.
