Sheretta Butler-Barnes

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.