Cybele Raver, Director
Email: cybele.raver@nyu.edu Phone: 212 998 5519
Cybele Raver directs NYU's Institute of Human Development and Social Change. Her research focuses on young children and families facing economic hardship, examining the mechanisms that support children's positive outcomes in the policy contexts of welfare reform and early intervention. She received her Ph.D. in developmental psychology from Yale University. Dr. Raver and her research team currently conduct the Chicago School Readiness Project (CSRP), a federally-funded RCT intervention. Before joining Steinhardt, Dr. Raver held faculty positions at the University of Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy Studies and at Cornell University's Department of Human Development.
Lawrence Wu, Deputy Director
Email: lawrence.wu@nyu.edu Phone: 212 992 9565
Lawrence Wu is the Deputy Director of the Institute of Human Development and Social Change. He is a Professor of Sociology and the Director for the Center for Advanced Social Science Research. Professor Wu earned his Ph.D. in sociology from Stanford and an A.B. in sociology and applied mathematics from Harvard. He is the Chair of the Population Section of the American Sociological Association and a Series Co-Editor of Analytical Methods for Social Research (Cambridge University Press).
Genevieve Okada, Institute & Grants Administrator
Email: genevieve.okada@nyu.edu Phone: 212 998 5536
Genevieve Okada is the Institute & Grants Administrator for NYU's Institute of Human Development and Social Change. Prior to joining IHDSC, she worked with Drs. Lawrence Aber, Joshua Brown, and Stephanie Jones as a Project Manager and Researcher on the New York City Study of Social and Literacy Development (4Rs). In addition to her administrative work with the Institute, Genevieve continues to work with Dr. Maria LaRusso on qualitative analyses of the 4Rs study as well as with Dr. Jones on immigration data from Dr. Raver's Chicago School Readiness Project.
Claudette Gakuba-Carter, IES-PIRT Program Coordinator/IHDSC Administrator
Email: claudette.carter@nyu.edu Phone: 212 992 7673
Claudette Carter manages the Institute of Educational Sciences' Predoctoral Interdisciplinary Research Training(PIRT) program, coordinating all doctoral fellowship activities. She is also the Doctoral Studies Coordinator in the Office of Research, working closely with Dr. Perry Halkitis-Associate Dean for Research & Doctoral Studies, at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. She earned a B.S. in accounting at Lehman College and is pursuing a M.A. in media, culture, and communication at Steinhardt. Prior to becoming an administrator at IHDSC, Claudette worked for the NYU Undergraduate Admissions Welcome Center.
Kathleen Zadzora, CSRP Project Coordinator
Email: kzadzora@nyu.edu Phone: 212 998 5647
Kathleen Zadzora is the Project Coordinator for the Institute of Human Development and Social Change and the Chicago School Readiness Project. She holds bachelor's degrees in psychology and anthropology from the University of Notre Dame and recently received her M.A. in educational psychology from NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. Prior to joining the Institute, Kathleen worked as a field researcher and graduate research assistant on NYU's New York City Study of Social and Literacy Development (4Rs).
Carolin Hagelskamp, IHDSC Seminar Series Co-Chair
Carolin Hagelskamp is one of the co-chairs of the Institute of Human Development and Social Change's Seminar Series and a doctoral student in community psychology at NYU. She received her bachelor's degree from the University of Kent at Canterbury (U.K.), and her master's degree from the London School of Economics and Political Sciences. At NYU she is working with Dr. Diane Hughes and Dr. Niobe Way on the Early Adolescent Cohort study at the Center for Research on Culture, Development and Education. Her research interests are the linkages between parental work-family experiences, parenting and adolescent development, across ethnically and socio-economically diverse families. She studies the role of job stress, gender role identities, workplace discrimination, and work place contacts on work-family dynamics. Carolin is also interested in the relationship between immigrant families' migration motivations and children's adjustment over time.
Catalina Torrente, IHDSC Seminar Series Co-Chair
Catalina Torrente is one of the co-chairs of the Institute of Human Development and Social Change's Seminar Series. She holds a double-degree in psychology and anthropology from Universidad de los Andes, and is currently pursuing a doctoral degree in psychological development at NYU. Her research interests focus on the individual and contextual processes that shape social-emotional competence and aggressive tendencies of behavior over time. In particular, she is interested in identifying factors that protect individuals from the risks that they encounter in daily life, and in finding strategies to foster the necessary skills that allow for the construction of peaceful societies. With Dr. J. Lawrence Aber as her advisor, Catalina has been a research assistant in the longitudinal evaluation of the 4Rs Program; under the supervision of Dr. Elise Cappella, she is beginning to examine the complex interactions between peer networks, classroom's characteristics and children's developmental outcomes.