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Dr. Fantasy T. Lozada is an assistant professor of Developmental Psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University where she is the director of the School, Home, and Internet contexts of EmotionaL Development (SHIELD) Lab. After completing her Ph.D. in Lifespan Developmental Psychology from North Carolina State University as an Initiative for Maximizing Student Diversity Scholar and a Center for Developmental Science Predoctoral Fellow, Dr. Lozada completed her postdoctoral training at the University of Michigan as a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Center for the Study of Black Youth in Context.

Her work explores the interplay of culture, race, and emotions and predictors of the social and emotional development of Black and Brown children across contexts. Some of her current research projects include (1) Action Research Teams for Culturally Responsive Teaching among middle school and high school teachers, (2) Family Expression and Emotional Life among African American families, and (3) Understanding Emotion Regulatory Flexibility among African American youth. Her work is published in Child Development, Journal of Child and Family Studies, Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, Emotion Review, Journal of Black Psychology, and Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology.

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