Research Council


These prominent experts in child and youth development set a national research agenda for America’s Promise Alliance. They also advise our Board of Directors and America’s Promise Trustees on issues related to evaluating indicators and outcomes for thriving youth.

J. Lawrence Aber

 

Professor, Applied Psychology and Public Policy, New York University

Robert Balfanz

Co-Director, Everyone Graduates Center, Johns Hopkins University

Brian Barber

 

Founding Director, Center for the International Study of Youth and Political Violence, University of Tennessee

Rick Belous

 

Vice President, Research, United Way of America

Gary Bowen

 

Kenan Distinguished Professor, School of Social Work, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Jomills H. Braddock

 

Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Miami

Richard F. Catalano

 

Director, Social Development Research Group, University of Washington

Michael Conn VP, Girl Scouts Research Institute

Martha Cox

 

Director, Center for Developmental Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Susan Curnan

 

Professor and Director, Center for Youth and Communities, The Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University

Kenneth Dodge

 

William McDougall Professor of Public Policy, Director, Center for Child and Family Policy, Duke University

Greg Duncan

 

Edwina S. Tarry Professor, School of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University

Constance Flanagan

 

Professor, Human Development and Family Studies, Pennsylvania State University

Roberta Golinkoff Professor, University of Delaware

Robert Grimm

 

Director, Research and Policy Development, Corporation for National and Community Service

J. David Hawkins

 

Kozmetsky Professor of Prevention, Department of Social Work, University of Washington

Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

 

Professor, Department of Psychology, Temple University

Kelleen Kaye  

Director, Research, National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy

Kenneth Land

 

John Franklin Crowell Professor, Department of Sociology, Duke University

Richard M. Lerner

 

Bergstrom Chair in Applied Developmental Science, Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development, Tufts University

Peter Levine

 

Deputy Director, Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement, University of Maryland

Kristin Anderson Moore

 

President and Senior Scholar, Child Trends

William O'Hare

 

Senior Fellow, Annie E. Casey Foundation

David Osher
Vice President, American Institutes for Research

Peter J. Pecora

  Senior Director of Research Services, Casey Family Programs

Karen Pittman

 

Executive Director, The Forum for Youth Investment

Michael D. Resnick   Professor and Director, Healthy Youth Development Prevention Research Center, University of Minnesota
Jean Rhodes   Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Boston

Isabel Sawhill

 

Vice President and Director, Economic Studies, The Brookings Institution

Peter C. Scales

 

Senior Fellow, Office of the President, Search Institute

Susan Siegel

 

Vice President, Research, Evaluation and Training, Communities In Schools National

Carl S. Taylor

 

Professor, Department of Sociology, Michigan State University

Heather Weiss

 

Director, Harvard Family Research Project, Harvard University

Hirokazu Yoshikawa

 

Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education

James Youniss

 

Professor, Life Cycle Institute, The Catholic University of America