A developmental psychologist, Butler-Barnes investigates how racialized stress exposures, including interpersonal racism, vicarious exposure to racial violence, and social media-based experiences shape and culturally grounded coping processes shape developmental and health trajectories among Black youth and families. Her work centers family systems as critical contexts through which risk and resilience processes unfold, linking early life experiences to well-being, educational outcomes, and risky behaviors, as well as chronic disease risk across the life course.
Sheretta Butler-Barnes
Professor and Dean’s Distinguished Professorial Scholar at the Brown School
Contact Information
- Phone: 314-935-8318
- Email: sbarnes22@wustl.edu
- Website: Website
Media Contact
In the media
From Michael Brown to Sonya Massey, a decade of police antiblack violence causes grief, worry and coping for Black parents
There remains a critical need to invest in the health and well-being of Black communities through structural policy changes in education, health care and local government., write Seanna Leath and Sheretta Butler-Barnes.
Stories
Faculty available to comment on 10th anniversary of Michael Brown’s death
Washington University in St. Louis faculty are available for media interviews marking the 10th anniversary of the death of Michael Brown Aug. 9, 2014, and subsequent civil unrest in Ferguson, Mo.
Washington People: Sheretta Butler-Barnes
Sheretta Butler Barnes, assistant professor in the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis, focuses her research on structural racism and inequalities in education. In this video, she talks about her motivation and her work, including a program to encourage girls of color in STEM subjects.