Megan Satterthwaite Freiman is a fifth-year doctoral student in the Human Development Learning and Teaching Concentration at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Her research interest include processes and factors that contribute to ethnic-racial identity development (e.g., ethnic-racial socialization, curriculum, culturally sustaining pedagogy, etc.) and the relationship between one’s ethnic-racial identity and one’s beliefs and commitments. More specifically, she studies how white adolescents within the United States develop their ethnic-racial identity and the impact this has on their attitudes and actions. She is also interested in the impact of school ethnic-racial socialization and the role of teachers on white youths’ ethnic-racial identity development and understandings of whiteness and systemic racism. She holds an Ed.M. in Prevention Science and Practice from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a B.A. in History from Boston College with a minor in secondary education.
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