SRA Committees

Awards: Oversees the administration of the Society's annual awards and recognitions and assists individual award subcommittees.

Emerging Scholars Committee: Provides representation and develops programming to address the needs of student, postdoctoral, and new professional scholars in SRA.
Chairs: Logan Kochendorfer, Rockhurst University, USA; Human Khalid, Brock University, Canada

Finance Committee: Provides financial analysis, advice, and oversight of the SRA budget to ensure the organization is operating with the financial resources necessary to provide SRA programs and services.
Chair: Shawn Whiteman, Utah State University, USA
Ex-officio: President and President-Elect

Global Engagement: Promotes research on adolescent development across countries, encourages and facilitates participation in SRA by scholars form all nations, and advises the SRA Board of Directors on issues related to global membership collaboration with global organizations, and how the Society can promote global research on adolescence.
Chair: Philip Baiden, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Board Liaison: Sevgi Bayram Özdemir, Örebro University, Sweden

Inclusion, Equity and Social Justice (IESJ) Committee: Suggests strategies to increase the representation, inclusion, and professional development of individuals from underrepresented groups in the Society's membership, and to increase the representation and inclusion of research focused on underrepresented populations in the SRA biennial program and publications.
Chairs: Meeta Banerjee, University of South Carolina, USA; Alaina Brenick, University of Connecticut, USA
Board Liaison: Dawn Witherspoon, Pennsylvania State University, USA

Interdisciplinary Committee: Enhances efforts that further interdisciplinary research, collaboration, and representation within the organization and within the field of research related to adolescence. They also oversee the Interdisciplinary Scholarship Award.
Chairs: Darlene Kertes, University of Florida, USA; Sarah Lindstrom Johnson, Arizona State University, USA
Boards Liaison: Riana Elyse Anderson, Columbia University, USA

International Young Scholars Program (IYSP): Facilitates scholarly interaction among international young scholars and leaders in the field of adolescent research and provides travel awards and complimentary registration to the annual meeting.
Chairs: Noni Gaylord-Harden, Texas A&M University, USA; Mayra Bamaca, University of California, Merced, USA

Media & Communication Committee: Develops, updates, and monitors the Society's communications policies, social media platforms, and webinars, and recommends new ways for SRA to communicate with its members and other audiences across its platforms.
Chairs: Mary Kate Koch, Gonzaga University, USA; Michaeline Jenson, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA
Board Liaison: Jessica Fish, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Membership Committee: Identifies and recommends initiatives and services to meet member and organizational needs, conducts member surveys, increases membership through recruitment, and keeps current members updated on relevant events and information.
Chairs: Stacey Horn, University of Minnesota, USA
Board Liaison: Fatima Varner, University of Texas, Austin, USA

Mid-Career Scholars Committee: Provides professional development, support, and mentoring to a cohort of mid-career scholars in the continued development of their research program.
Chairs: Frosso Motti, University of Athens, Greece; Paul Hastings, University of California, Davis, USA

Programming Committee: Develops quality content and events for the benefit of the Society's members, with a focus on the Biennial Meeting.
Chairs: Erika Y Niwa, Brooklyn College, USA; Alaina Brenick, University of Connecticut, USA
Board Liaison: Justin Jager, University of Michigan, USA

Publications Committee: Responsible for the quality of SRA publications and provides direction to and review of the Society's print and electronic publications, including journals, books, news, educational, and other publications.
Co-chairs: Hans Saint-Eloi Cadely and Mengya Xia
Board Liaison: Richard Lee, University of Minnesota, USA

Social Policy Committee: Creates opportunities for training and education to enhance knowledge of the policy process, building effective policy partnerships, and methods related to policy-relevant science; establishes SRA as a partner with other scientific professional societies or groups working on policy activities; ensures that the empirical knowledge base of adolescent development is used to inform timely policy debates. They also oversee the Social Policy Achievement and Publication Awards.
Chair: Alex Wasserman, University of Michigan, USA
Board Liaison: Zena Mello, San Francisco State University, USA

Undergraduate Scholars Program (USP) Committee: Encourages and supports junior and senior undergraduate students from ethnic minority groups from North America to pursue graduate work and careers in adolescent development. More information can be found here.
Chairs: Noni Gaylord-Harden, Texas A&M University, USA; Mayra Bamaca, University of California, Merced, USA

Not a member yet? Join today!