Casey and NORC Tap Three Scholars of Color for Research Awards

With funding from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, NORC at the University of Chicago has selected three researchers of color to receive $10,000 each. The winning scholars, who are all in the early stages of their career, will utilize Making Connections data sets to advance knowledge related to low-income families, their children and communities.

The award recipients and their winning research proposals are:

• Henry Gonzales of Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona
  “Creciendo en mi barrio: Understanding the role of neighborhood quality in the well-being of children in Latino families”
   
• Zoelene Valenzuela Hill of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina
  “Profiles of parents who are (dis)connected to early education services”
   
• Erika Niwa of Brooklyn College in New York, New York
  “The spaces between: A longitudinal examination of parents' perceptions of neighborhood cohesion and child well-being”

These awards were made possible thanks to the Foundation’s Emerging Scholars Initiative, which is part of its Expanding the Bench® initiative and aims to offer researchers and evaluators of color opportunities to conduct a secondary analysis using a Casey-supported data set.