Gorana Gonzalez is a graduate student in the Cognition Across Development Lab (CAD lab) led by Dr. Tara Mandalaywala in the Developmental Science Program. She is interested in understanding the development of racial social cognition. That is, how are children learning and thinking about race and applying that knowledge in their daily lives? How does race influence what children think of others, how they expect others to behave, and the spaces they can navigate? Gorana also has tangential interests in children’s understanding of racial privileges as well as how children are acquiring knowledge about racial categories and what that knowledge is. Her Master’s Thesis currently focuses on children’s expectations for how their peers of different races might behave when encountering police officers or other authorities.