First name,Last name,Preferred title,Overview,Position,Department,Individual
Idia,Thurston,Associate Professor,"My research aims to understand why certain groups of people experience a greater health and disease burden and to promote health equity among all youth and families. I strive to engage with communities to understand individual, familial, community, and cultural risk and protective factors among minoritized, marginalized, and underserved populations. In my research, I consider how co-occurring adversities (i.e., HIV, violence, substance misuse) and health comorbidities (i.e., metabolic complications) are maintained based on intersectional identities (i.e., race, ethnicity, gender, class, sexuality). I then use this knowledge to develop strength-based, culturally-responsive programs and interventions to enhance well-being, reduce stigma, and promote self-empowerment.",Associate Professor||Associate Professor,Health Promotion and Community Health Sciences,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n77bfadfb
Ananya,Tiwari,ACES Faculty Fellow and Assistant Professor,"1) Dr. Tiwari broadly investigates how sense of belonging is shaped and influenced by identities, social structures, and experiences among marginalized communities. She further looks at issues related to measurement of social and emotional attributes cross-culturally.
2) The second strand of her research seeks to understand how programs and policies can enhance belonging for marginalized communities where she engages in policy-level analysis and program development. Additionally, she conducts process and impact assessments as part of evaluation using frameworks of culturally responsive evaluation and assessment (CREA).
Her emerging research interests are Artificial Intelligence in teaching and learning and belonging. She uses a mixed methods approach.",Aces Assistant Professor,Educational Psychology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nfa8d259d