Join Us

        We invite you to join Bridging Multiple Worlds Alliance partners, whose studies reach across cultural communitie. Examples are listed below; please contact individual scholars for details.

• Challenges and Resources of Refugee Youth in Australia from Somalia and Myanmar - Jeanette Lawrence and Abigail Brooker, University of Melbourne

• Relational Empowerment for Latino Elementary School Students in a yPAR (youth participatory action research) Program - Regina Langhout, University of California, Santa Cruz

• Immigrant Latino Parents as Cultural Brokers for Their Children and Other Parents - Zuleyma Rogel, University of California, Santa Barbara

• Cultural Practitioners and Classroom Educators with Indigenous Hawaiian Students and Their Families - Lois Yamauchi, Katherine Ratliffe, and Rebecca Luning, University of Hawai'i

• African American Adolescents’ Sexual Health Knowledge and Behavior - Martina Thomas, University of Alabama

• Persistence and Retention of Southeast Asian American College Students - Malaphone Phommasa, University of California, Santa Barbara

• Future Orientation of Muslim, Druze, Ultra-Orthodox Jewish, and Secular Jewish Adolescents and Young Adults in Israel - Rachel Seginer, University of Haifa, Israel, and Sami Mahajna, Beit Berl College, Israel

• Providing Higher Education Guidance to Adolescent Immigrant Youth: An Intergenerational Narrative - Ana Guerrero and Richard Duran, University of California, Santa Barbara

We welcome your questions and suggestions at bmwa@ucsc.edu

    Catherine R. Cooper, Ph.D., Director, BMWA; Research Professor of Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz; Faculty Director, UCSC Educational Partnership Center

    Elizabeth Domínguez, M. A., Co-Director, BMWA; Director, Cabrillo Advancement Program, Cabrillo Community College, Aptos, CA 

    David Cooper, BMWA Webmaster