Lisette M. DeSouza

Associate Research Scientist

Ph.D., Tufts University, Child Study and Human Development
lisette[dot]desouza@wellesley[dot]edu
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Areas of focus included: child and adolescent development, mixed-methods research, out-of-school time, social-emotional learning and positive youth development, contexts of human development

Lisette M. DeSouza, Ph.D., was an associate research scientist who had worked with scholars at the Wellesley Centers for Women in the National Institute on Out-of-School Time, Family, Sexuality, and Communication Research Initiative, and Youth, Media & Wellbeing Research Lab. Her research and work focused on child and adolescent development, in particular how community contexts support the development of young people's skills and positive development.

DeSouza collaborated with schools and out-of-school time programs to investigate how program practices relate to youth competence, and how social-emotional learning shapes academic progress. She was also committed to documenting, addressing, and shifting structural inequities which are barriers to positive development.

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Selected Publications