Biography
Perla Ramos Carranza is a Ph.D. student in the School of Education specializing in Human Development in Context (HDiC). She received her B.S. in Human Development and B.A. in Psychology from UC Davis in 2017.
Perla is broadly interested in understanding the resources that support underserved students throughout their educational trajectories. Specifically, she focuses on studying the role of family involvement and in-school and after-school programs on the education of Latinx youth. Moreover, she is interested in exploring how identity and sense of belonging in various academic and community spaces may shape educational trajectories when considering race/ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality.
Perla is currently working on the Family Support of Math and Science Motivation project with Dr. Sandra Simpkins, where she is examining the different ways that parents and siblings support Latinx adolescents in science. She is also part of Dr. Deborah Vandell and Dr. Sandra Simpkins' Mott project, in which she is part of a team reviewing the literature on after-school programs working with low-income, ethnic-minority youth.
March 2020
Perla Ramos Carranza is a Ph.D. student in the School of Education specializing in Human Development in Context (HDiC). She received her B.S. in Human Development and B.A. in Psychology from UC Davis in 2017.
Perla is broadly interested in understanding the resources that support underserved students throughout their educational trajectories. Specifically, she focuses on studying the role of family involvement and in-school and after-school programs on the education of Latinx youth. Moreover, she is interested in exploring how identity and sense of belonging in various academic and community spaces may shape educational trajectories when considering race/ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality.
Perla is currently working on the Family Support of Math and Science Motivation project with Dr. Sandra Simpkins, where she is examining the different ways that parents and siblings support Latinx adolescents in science. She is also part of Dr. Deborah Vandell and Dr. Sandra Simpkins' Mott project, in which she is part of a team reviewing the literature on after-school programs working with low-income, ethnic-minority youth.
March 2020
