SRA Committees

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Awards: Oversees the administration of the Society's annual awards and recognitions and assists individual award subcommittees.
Chair: Charissa Cheah
Co-Chair: Philip Baiden

Emerging Scholars: Provides representation and develops programming to address the needs of student, postdoctoral, and new professional scholars in SRA.
Chairs: Carolina Goncalves, The University of Chicago, USA; Human Khalid, Brock University, Canada

Finance: Provides financial analysis, advice, and oversight of the SRA budget to ensure the organization is operating with the financial resources necessary to provide SRA programs and services.
Chair: Shawn Whiteman, Utah State University, USA
Ex-officio: President and President-Elect

Global Engagement: Promotes research on adolescent development across countries, encourages and facilitates participation in SRA by scholars form all nations, and advises the SRA Board of Directors on issues related to global membership collaboration with global organizations, and how the Society can promote global research on adolescence. They also oversee the Outstanding Scholarly Contribution to Adolescence in the Majority World Award[FV4.1].
Chair: Graciela Espinoza-Hernandez, University of North Carolina Wilmington, US
Co-Chair: Pankhuri Aggarwal, University of Cincinnati
Board Liaison: Sevgi Bayram Özdemir, Örebro University, Sweden

Inclusion, Equity and Social Justice (IESJ): Suggests strategies to increase the representation, inclusion, and professional development of individuals from underrepresented groups in the Society's membership, and to increase the representation and inclusion of research focused on underrepresented populations in the SRA biennial program and publications. They also oversee the Inclusion, Equity, and Social Justice Award.
Chair: Vanessa Volpe, North Carolina State University, USA
Board Liaison: Dawn Witherspoon, Pennsylvania State University, USA

Interdisciplinary: Enhances efforts that further interdisciplinary research, collaboration, and representation within the organization and within the field of research related to adolescence. They also oversee the Outstanding Interdisciplinary Contribution Award.
Chair: Christy Rogers, Texas Tech University, USA
Board Liaison: Riana Elyse Anderson, Columbia University, USA

International Young Scholars Program (IYSP): Facilitates scholarly interaction among international young scholars and leaders in the field of adolescent research and provides travel awards and complimentary registration to the annual meeting.
Chairs: Philip Baiden, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA; Brenda Lohan, University of Missouri, USA

Media & Communication: Develops, updates, and monitors the Society's communications policies, social media platforms, and webinars, and recommends new ways for SRA to communicate with its members and other audiences across its platforms.
Chair: Mary Kate Koch, Gonzaga University, USA
Co-Chair: Kaylin Ratner, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
Board Liaison: Jessica Fish, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Membership: Identifies and recommends initiatives and services to meet member and organizational needs, conducts member surveys, increases membership through recruitment, and keeps current members updated on relevant events and information.
Chair: Stacey Horn, University of Minnesota, USA
Co-Chair: Sarah Beal, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Board Liaison: Fatima Varner, University of Texas at Austin, USA

Mid-Career Scholars: Provides professional development, support, and mentoring to a cohort of mid-career scholars in the continued development of their research program.
Chair: Paul Hastings, University of California, Davis, USA
Co-Chair: Sandra Graham, UCLA, USA

Programming: Develops quality content and events for the benefit of the Society's members, with a focus on the Biennial Meeting.
Chairs: Erika Y Niwa, Brooklyn College, USA; Alaina Brenick, University of Connecticut, USA
Board Liaison: Justin Jager, University of Michigan, USA

Publications: Responsible for the quality of SRA publications and provides direction to and review of the Society's print and electronic publications, including journals, books, news, educational, and other publications.
Chair: Mengya Xia, Arizona State University, USA
Co-Chair: Jennifer Urban, Montclair State University, USA
Board Liaison: Richard Lee, University of Minnesota, USA

Social Policy: Creates opportunities for training and education to enhance knowledge of the policy process, building effective policy partnerships, and methods related to policy-relevant science; establishes SRA as a partner with other scientific professional societies or groups working on policy activities; ensures that the empirical knowledge base of adolescent development is used to inform timely policy debates. They also oversee the Social Policy Achievement and Publication Awards.
Chair: Alexander Wasserman, University of Michigan, USA
Co-Chair: Naoka Carey, Northeastern University, USA
Board Liaison: Zena Mello, San Francisco State University, USA

Undergraduate Scholars Program (USP): Encourages and supports junior and senior undergraduate students from ethnic minority groups from North America to pursue graduate work and careers in adolescent development. More information can be found here.
Chairs: Noni Gaylord-Harden, Rice University, USA; Melinda Gonzales-Backen, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA