#  Natalie Sarmiento 

 

 



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Natalie Sarmiento is a Ph.D. student and presidential scholar fellowship recipient at the Harvard Graduate School of Education with a concentration in Human Development, Learning, and Teaching. Natalie received their B.A. from Stanford University where they majored in Psychology and minored in Chicanx-Latinx Studies and Computer Science. Prior to Harvard, Natalie worked as a lab manager in two psychology research labs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison under the mentorship of Drs. Kristin Shutts and Patricia Devine. During their time as a lab manager, they were the project coordinator for an intervention study that trains white parents to address race and racial biases with their white children and worked on projects examining children’s anti-racist behavior and group preferences. As a doctoral student, Natalie is interested in the role family ethnic socialization and peer relationships play in the ethnic-racial identity development of Latine youth.