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“Exploring race and ethnicity in the classroom can influence academic outcomes, mental health, and overall well-being in teens. Professor Adriana Umaña-Taylor’s work focuses on understanding how individual and contextual factors — including ethnic-racial identity — interact to inform adolescents’ development and affect academic success. She developed the Identity Project, a school-based intervention curriculum that engages adolescents in the developmental processes of ethnic-racial identity exploration and resolution.” |