Dr. Santos is also the Co-Principal Investigator of a grant studying Filipino mothers' perceptions of appropriate parent-child interactions. For several years she worked as a preschool teacher and as a special education teacher in the Philippines. Dr. Santos has a long-term interest in developing strategies for instruction in the natural environment, applying behavioral momentum principles to enhance communication development, and using technology in personnel preparation. Dr. Santos is an active member of the Division for Early Childhood (DEC) of the Council for Exceptional Children serving in various leadership roles for the Illinois subdivision and national DEC. She is currently the chair for DEC's Multicultural Concerns Committee.

http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/sped/main/faculty/santos.html

Amy Santos responds to viewer questions from October 23, 2003 (MS Word)

Dr. Coll has also been on the editorial boards of many prestigious academic journals, including Child Development, Development and Psychopathology, Infant Behavior and Development and Infancy. She was a member of the MacArthur Foundation Network: "Successful Pathways Through Middle Childhood". She is the Chair of the Committee on Racial and Ethnic Issues for the Society for Research on Child Development (SRCD). She served on the SRCD Executive Committee from 1966-2001. She has served as the SRCD representative to the National Head Start Conference committee from 1994 to 2001. Garc√∫a Coll has co-edited several books: The Psychosocial Development of Puerto Rican Women; Puerto Rican Women and Children: Issues in Health, Growth and Development; and Mothering Against the Odds: Diverse Voices of Contemporary Mothers. She also was a co-editor of the special issue for the journal Child Development entitled "Children and Poverty". She is a fellow of the American Psychological Association.

http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Education/facpages/Cynthia.html

Cynthia Carcia Coll responds to viewer questions from November 13, 2003 (MS Word)

Dr. Villarruel is the co-editor of Making Invisible Latino Youth Visible: A Critical Approach to Latin Diversity (2000) and Community Youth Development: Programs, Practices, and Policies (2003). He also serves as a consultant to several organizations and initiatives both in Michigan and throughout the country. For example, Dr. Villarruel works with the National Youth Law Center on their Building Blocks Initiative, which is a national effort to address the issue of disproportionate minority confinement of adolescents in the United States.

http://www.msu.edu/~fvilla/