Stephanie M. Jones is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Fordham University. She completed her graduate work in the Psychology Department at Yale University and a postdoctoral fellowship at the Yale Child Study Center. Her research is focused on tracking the longitudinal impact of broad ecological risks, such as poverty and exposure to community violence, on social-emotional problems and competencies in early childhood and adolescence. Dr Jones is also currently involved in a number of policy relevant evaluation studies of pre-school and school-based programs targeting emotional and behav...