Applied Human Development
William Rodriguez
William Rodriguez is a senior lecturer at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. He teaches primarily in the areas of youth justice and advocacy, juvenile law, and positive youth development. His pedagogical teaching approach is to integrate much of his experience as a practitioner to the theoretical foundations of knowledge that are […]
Justin Ruiz
Justin Ruiz is a doctoral student in the Applied Human Development program at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. His research interests involve looking at how children learn from and trust both human and nonhuman sources, with a focus on media and technology. Justin is also interested in thinking about ways to […]
Rebecca Shangraw
Dr. Rebecca Shangraw is a senior lecturer in the Applied Human Development program at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Her research focuses on identifying and investigating recommended teaching practices to use when instructing physical education students or athletes who have specific learning disabilities, ADHD, or autism. Recent News
Tanya Songtachalert
Tanya Songtachalert is a doctoral student in the Counseling Psychology & Applied Human Development program at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Her research focuses on mental healthcare accessibility for Asian and Asian American individuals, and how food and shared mealtimes can be used to increase access and efficacy of group therapy […]
Emily Stolz
Emily Stolz is a research fellow at the Center on the Ecology of Early Development (CEED) at Boston University. Her research interests center on the ways in which schools support the ethnic-racial identity development of young children. She approaches this topic from a strengths-based, ecological lens by considering the messages that children receive about their […]
Sarah Suárez
Dr. Sarah Suárez is a postdoctoral associate in the Social Learning Lab at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. She studies children’s conceptual development, causal learning, and critical thinking in informal learning contexts, with an interest in understanding the nature and development of individual differences. Pronouns: she/her
Mitali Temurnikar
Mitali Temurnikar is a doctoral student in Counseling Psychology at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Her research focuses on psychological safety, scalable mental health interventions, and the use of technology to improve mental health access, with an emphasis on policy and innovative approaches to support diverse populations. Mitali’s work has been […]
Pei Wang
Pei Wang is a doctoral student in the Counseling Psychology & Applied Human Development program at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Her research focuses on the social-emotional development of adolescents within diverse social, economic, and cultural contexts. She aims to develop culture-based strategies to support the positive development of adolescents from […]
Allison Williams
Dr. Allison J. Williams is a postdoctoral research associate at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. She works in the Social Learning Lab and is a core team member of the Developing Belief Network. Dr. Williams’ research interests focus on children’s thinking and learning. She examines how children identify who (or what) […]
Samuel Williams
Sam Williams is a part-time instructor at Boston University Wheelock College of Education and Human Development. He has been in the nonprofit sector for over twenty years. Mr. Williams is the founder of One Circle Health and Wellness, LLC. He has been instrumental in various local, statewide, and national initiatives, including historical racial injustice, racial […]