Dr. Andrea Negrete is a community psychologist with a focus on adolescent development. She studies how conditions of social inequality shape adolescent development and the role of family, community, and school contexts in youths’ ethnic-racial identity development, understanding of structural inequality, and engagement in social actions to disrupt injustice, with a particular focus on the experiences of Latinx immigrant youth.

Dr. Negrete received her B.A. in Psychology and her M.Ed. in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies from the University of Washington, Seattle. She received her PhD in Community Psychology at the University of Virginia. She was born in Guanajuato, Mexico, and raised in Mattawa, Washington, a rural working class farmworker community in central Washington.