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Andrea L. DaViera, MA

Graduate Student, Community and Applied Developmental Psychology

Psychology

Pronouns: She/Her/Hers

Contact

Building & Room:

BSB 1080

Address:

1007 West Harrison Street

Email:

adavie6@uic.edu

About

I am a doctoral candidate and applied researcher in the field of community psychology. I have intersecting research interests regarding sociopolitical development, anti-racist organizing/activism, critical positive youth development, violence, oppression/inequality, prison industrial complex (PIC) abolition, and social justice issues broadly. I use a variety of research approaches, including quantitative, qualitative, GIS, community-engaged, participatory, and action research. I have additionally applied my research skills to program evaluation and have experience implementing evaluation research in educational settings. As an educator and former instructor of record, I have used critical and participatory pedagogy techniques to teach community psychology and research methods. In addition to my research career, I am proudly a community organizer and have held leadership positions within my union. For fun, I paint and spend time with my loved ones.

Advisor: Dr. Amanda Roy

 

Selected Publications

Grant, A., & DaViera, A., L., (forthcoming October 2023). Beyond good intentions: Principles of anti-racist community-engaged research. In E. Anderson (Ed.) Ethical Issues in Community and Patient Engaged Health Research. Springer.

DaViera, A. L., Bailey, C., Lakind, D., Kivell, N., Areguy, F., & Byrd, K., (2023). Identifying Abolitionist Alignments in Community Psychology: A Path Toward Transformation. American Journal of Community Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajcp.12678

DaViera, A., L., Uriostegui, M., Gottlieb, A., & Onyeka, O., (2023). Risk, race, and predictive policing: A Critical Race Theory analysis of the Strategic Subject List. American Journal of Community Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajcp.12671

Roy, A. L., Isaia, A., DaViera, A., Eisenberg, Y., & Poulos, C., (2021). Redefining exposure: Using mobile technology and geospatial analysis to explore when and where Chicago adolescents are exposed to neighborhood characteristics. American Journal of Community Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajcp.12490

DaViera, A. L., Roy, A. L., Uriostegui, M., & *Fiesta, D. (2020) Safe spaces embedded in dangerous contexts: How Chicago youth navigate daily life and demonstrate resilience in high-crime neighborhoods. American Journal of Community Psychology. DOI 10.1002/ajcp.12434

DaViera, A. L. & Roy, A. L., (2019). Chicago youths’ exposure to community violence: Contextualizing spatial dynamics of violence and the relationship with psychological functioning. American Journal of Community Psychology, DOI:10.1002/ajcp.12405

Service to Community

DaViera, A., L., & Grant, A., (2020). Police reform vs. Abolition as first and second-order change: The case of Chicago. The Community Psychologist. Retrieved from http://www.scra27.org/publications/tcp/tcp-past-issues/tcpfall2020/special-feature-racial-capitalism-covid-19-and-compounding-inequalities/

DaViera, A. L., Cuartas, J., & Roy, A. L., (2019). Impact of community violence on youth. Community Psychology. Retrieved from https://www.communitypsychology.com/impact-community-violence-youth/

Notable Honors

2023, Graduate Student Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring Award - Honorable Mention, University of Illinois Chicago Graduate College, Honors College, and the Center for the Advancement of Teaching Excellence

2022, Travel Scholarship and Speaker Honorarium, All-In: Co-Creating Knowledge for Justice Conference

2021, Provost Graduate Research Award, University of Illinois at Chicago

2020, Provost Graduate Internship Award, University of Illinois at Chicago

2020, Psychology Undergraduate Research Readiness Mentor Award, University of Illinois at Chicago

2019, Psychology Undergraduate Research Readiness Mentor Award, University of Illinois at Chicago

2015, Libraries Student Employee (PULSE) Award, Purdue University

2012-2014, College Success Advocate, Twenty-First Century Scholars

2012, Bernice A. Carroll Award, Feminism, Social Justice and Peace Studies, Purdue University

Education

University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
Ph.D. Community and Prevention Research, Expected August 2023
Dissertation title: A Qualitative Investigation of University Student Organizing and How it Supports School Success at a Minority-Serving Institution
Chair: Dr. Amanda L. Roy
Minor Concentration: Statistics and Research Methods

M.A. Community and Prevention Research, March 2019
Thesis title: Chicago Youth’s Exposure to Community Violence: Exploring Spatial Dynamics of Violence and Psychological Functioning

Supplemental Training: 2021 Critical Participatory Action Research Intensive, Public Science Project, City University of New York

Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
B.S. Psychological Sciences, August 2015
Minor Concentration: Human Development and Family Studies

Selected Presentations

  1. DaViera, A. L. & Roy, A. L., (2022 April). Is being critical, political? Understanding critical consciousness in terms of political affiliation. In Ford, K. (Chair) Societal Beliefs and Youth’s Aspirations as Strategies for Change. Midwestern Psychological Association (MPA) Conference, Chicago, IL.
  2. Bailey, C., DaViera, A. L., Kivell, N., Lakind, D., LoCurto, J., Renner, M., Rennick, J., Stacy, S., & Siegal, R. (authors alphabetical). (2021 June). Identifying and unlinking carcerality from community psychology: An abolition teach-in (Preconference workshop). Society for Community Research and Action 2021 Biennial Conference (virtual due to COVID-19 pandemic).
  3. DaViera, A. L., Uriostegui, M., & Onyeka, O., (2021 June). Risk, race, and predictive policing: A Critical Race Theory analysis of the strategic subject list. In DaViera, A.L. (Chair) Using Critical Approaches to Build the Evidence-Base for Abolition. Society for Community Research and Action 2021 Biennial Conference (virtual due to COVID-19 pandemic).
  4. Areguy, F., Bailey, C., DaViera, A. L., Kivell, N., Lakind, D., & Renner, M. (authors alphabetical). (2021 June). Fostering transnational solidarity and imagination for abolition: Directions for Community Psychology research and action. In DaViera, A.L. (Chair) Using Critical Approaches to Build the Evidence-Base for Abolition. Society for Community Research and Action 2021 Biennial Conference (virtual due to COVID-19 pandemic).