Dr. Josefina Bañales is an Assistant Professor in Developmental Psychology and the Learning Research and Development Center at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research examines adolescents’ critical racial consciousness development, or how youth develop beliefs, feelings, and behaviors that challenge racism. She investigates the extent to which social contexts (e.g., racial/ethnic messages from parents and schools) and individual sociocultural factors (e.g., ethnic-racial identity) inform youth’s critical racial consciousness development.