Dr. Sheretta T. Butler-Barnes is a developmental psychologist and has expertise and scholarly work on the impact of racism and the use of culturally strength-based assets on the educational and health outcomes of Black American families. She is currently a Professor at the Wash U Brown School of Social Work. Before coming to the Brown School, she was a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Michigan’s School of Education affiliated with the Center for the Study of Black Youth in Context. She received her PhD and MA from Wayne State University in psychology and a BS in psychology from Michigan State University.