This  April, Chicago served as the host city for two exciting conferences: The Society for Research on Adolescence’s (SRA)  2024 Annual Meeting and the Midwestern Psychological Association’s (MPA) 2024 conference. Several members of the DICE lab shared their work on these spaces:  

→ At SRA:

Courtney Jones presented the paper “’That white side of me is just like obsolete’: Locating Whiteness in the Racial Identity Stories of Multiracial White Youth” in the “Diverse Perspectives on Ethnic-Racial Identity Development for Multiracial Adolescents” symposium. 

Amanda-Joy Wright and Kenya Tuttle presented the paper “’We’re Actually Pretty Beautiful… [and] Smart’: Black Girls’ Reflections, Relationships, and Resistance as Conduits of Belonging in an Out-of-School Context” in the “Toward Developmental Perspectives of Black Girlhoods: Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood across Contexts” symposium.  

Brandon Dull presented the paper “’I don’t think there is much racism left’: A Critical Analysis of White Adolescents’ (Un)Awareness of White Privilege” in the “Anti-Racism Development in White Adolescents: Examining the Predictors, Pitfalls, and Possibilities” symposium. 

Dr. Yerin Park presented the poster “Social Identity Exploration in Intersections of Privilege.” 

Dr. Rogers was the discussant in the symposium entitled “How do parents socialize children living in inequitable societies? Parent ethnic-racial socialization in Germany, the U.S., and S. Korea.” 

→ At MPA:

Vanessa Cordova presented the poster “Master Narrative of Racialized Police Murders: Examining Parent-Child Conversations.”  

Congratulations DICErs!