Victoria Vezaldenos

Victoria Vezaldenos is a Doctoral student at the University of Michigan in the Combined Program for Education and Psychology and is leading the Critical Multiracial Ethnic-Racial Identity Project with the support of her Ford Predoctoral Fellowship.  She is a first-generation college student from Manteca, CA. She majored in Psychology and minored in Education Studies at UCLA before earning an M.A. in Education Studies and M.S. in Psychology from the University of Michigan.  At UM she is President of Puentes, the campus-wide Latinx graduate student organization. She is interested in exploring ethnic-racial identity development processes for multiracial adolescents and young adults. Her work aims to develop a reliable measure of critical multiracial ethnic-racial identity to allow for wider-spread use of quantitative methods in the field of multiracial ERI development.