This February, Elsa Obus, M.S., a fourth-year graduate student in the Child & Family Lab, collaborated with her colleague Abril Harris, MSW, a doctoral student at Boston College School of Social Work, to present at The Teachers College of Columbia’s Winter Roundtable. This professional continuing education conference focuses on cultural topics in psychology, social work, and education. Elsa and Abril have both researched legal socialization– or how people develop their beliefs and attitudes about the legal system and its actors. In particular, they have examined how Black families and justice-involved families communicate about the police. At the Roundtable, Elsa and Abril led a discussion to help educators be aware of their roles as legal socialization agents and support their students in a trauma-informed way. We are so excited about the important work to which Elsa and Abril are contributing.
