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Adriana Aldana听(She/her/ella) earned her doctorate from the Joint Doctoral Program in Social Work and Developmental Psychology at the University of Michigan. Before moving to her graduate studies, she attended 好色先生, Northridge, where she earned a BA in Chicano Studies and Psychology in 2007. In 2014, she completed a postdoctoral research fellowship in the Department of Planning, Policy, and Design at the University of California, Irvine.听

She is a community-based practitioner and developmental psychologist, with an emphasis on听youth sociopolitical empowerment. Her scholarship examines how participatory action research and multicultural organizing models build youths' capacity for anti-racism engagement. Her research with diverse youth has identified the processes that promote young people's ability to think critically about their social identity, systems of privilege and oppression, and inclusive social action tactics. As a practitioner, she has organized social justice workshops, managed a community-based youth dialogue program, and developed program curricula for K-12 educators and youth's multicultural training.

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Recent Publications

Ba帽ales, J. , Cabrera, S. A. , Garcia, B. , Reyes, J. , Irizarry, I. E. , Rodriguez, A. & Aldana, A. (2025) 鈥淎 descriptive narrative of a Latinx research-practice partnership to develop the Roots y Resistencia听intervention鈥�, Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning. 31(1). doi:

Aldana, A. (2024). Counterstory pedagogy: Student letters of resilience, healing, and resistance. Elon University Center for Engaged Learning.

Aldana, A. (2024). Self-Care is Resistance: Rest as a pedagogical tool and critical race praxis. In W. Ashley (Ed.) Merging Clinical Social Work and Antiracism Positioning: How to be a Clinically Sound, Antiracist Social Work Practitioner.听Peter Lang Publishing Inc.

Aldana, A. Nakaoka, S., Vazquez, N., & Ortiz, L. (2023). Fifteen years of critical race theory in social work education: What we鈥檝e learned. In L. S. Abrams, S. Edmonds Crewe, A. J. Dettlaff, & J. H. Williams (Eds.) Social Work, White Supremacy, and Racial Justice: Reckoning with Our History, interrogating our Present, Re-Imagining our Future.听Oxford University Press.

Naseh, M., Illea, P., Aldana, A., & Sutherland, I. (2023). Family separation as an oppressive tool: A scoping review of child separation from the primary caregiver as the result of migration policies. Children and Youth Services Review. Advance online publication.

Aldana, A., Vazquez, N., *Hosea, T. (2022). Centering anti-racism in social work education: Integration of CRT across an MSW curriculum. Critical Social Work 24(1), 20-38.

Aldana, A. & Richards-Schuster, K. (2021). Youth-Led antiracism research: Making a case for Participatory Methods and Creative Strategies in Developmental Science. Journal of Adolescent Research, 36(6), 654-685.