Multiple Media Outlets Feature Interviews with Fatima Varner

Faculty member Fatima Varner has been interviewed multiple times this summer to share insights of her research on race related stressors on Black families and adolescent outcomes. Not only does she share findings on her research, but she also gives a perspective of discrimination Black students and academics face in the pipeline to college and while attending or working at a university. She makes a call for better mentoring programs for Black high school, undergraduate and graduate students and more applied research for underrepresented populations.

The Austin American-Statesman also recently spoke with Varner, a University of Texas professor in the department of human development and family sciences, who discussed examining the psychological effect of race-related stressors and the ways young Black students and researchers can be supported to reach their academic goals.

Read more in the ​"​July 2020 Researcher's Window: Dr. Fatima Varner" from the Society for the Study of Human Development.