Juan del Toro

Background

About Juan del Toro

I am currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Psychology at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. I completed a postdoctoral research fellowship and a research association position at the Learning Research and Development Center (LRDC) at the University of Pittsburgh. I completed my Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology at New York University. My dissertation, “Understanding the Nature of the Antecedents and Consequences of Multiple Sources of Ethnic-racial Discrimination from Early Adolescence to Young Adulthood” examines the differential precedents and consequences of individuals’ perceived ethnic-racial discrimination from peers versus non-peers, including adults inside and outside of school. My second line of research focuses on the effects of involvement in the criminal justice system on ethnic-racial minority youth development. I have published in academic outlets, including Child Development, American Psychologist, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Currently, I am serving as a consulting editor for the Journal of Research on Adolescence, the Journal for Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, and Journal of Educational Psychology. I also have experience in applied research settings given my work as a research scientist for the Educational Development Center and the Center for Policing Equity.