Several members of the Black Families Flourishing (BFF) team recently gathered at the Society for Research in Child Development biennial meeting in Minneapolis, MN, to discuss their varied and interconnected research agendas focusing on Black families.
BFF Director and Lead Researcher Dr. Chrishana M. Lloyd along with BFF Advisory Board Members Alycia Hardy, Dr. Iheoma U. Iruka, and Dr. Latrice Rollins participated in a conversation roundtable titled, “Let’s Explore Applied Research Agendas in Support of Black Families and Children.
The panelists and audience engaged in topics including:
- the need for community-based data to inform local policies and programming,
- the importance of data sovereignty and ownership in an era of decreased interest in population specific research, and
- ways to combine, share, promote, and elevate access to data to maximize resources and extend learning across varied research efforts, geographies, and populations of Black families.
The BFF team made many connections at the meeting that they hope to carry throughout the project as we mobilize to inform research, policy, and program changes that support Black families flourishing.
* Photographed above from left to right: Ms. Alycia Hardy, Dr. Latrice Rollins, Dr. Iheoma U. Iruka, and Dr. Chrishana M. Lloyd
