Joanna Lee Williams, PhD, MSEd

Member, National Scientific Council on Adolescence

Joanna is the Senior Director of Research at the Search Institute. She previously served as associate professor in psychology at Rutgers University and as a Faculty Affiliate at both Youth-Nex: The U.Va. Center to Promote Effective Youth Development and the Center for Parent and Teen Communication. Joanna studies race and ethnicity as social contexts for youth development.

Awards

  • William T. Grant Scholars Award - http://wtgrantfoundation.org/new-william-t-grant-scholars