OUR RESEARCH
We’ve partnered with researchers to explore the power and impact of our programming.
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“To be our best selves”: Critical Dialogue with girls of color about their experiences in a social justice leadership program
Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, 2021 | Tashal Brown | This paper focuses on the experiences of six high school girls of color as they interrogate power, oppression, and privilege at the interpersonal and institutional levels through Sadie Nash Leadership Programming.
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“It’s About the Way I’m Treated”: Afro-Latina Black Identity Development in the Third Space
Youth & Society Journal, 2020 | Jomaira Salas Pujols | Through an ethnographic study with Sadie Nash Leadership Project, this study by a SNLP faculty member and professor at Bard College examines how girls who are ethnically Latina and racially Black embrace and articulate AfroLatinx identity. Understanding how Afro-Latina girls learn to embrace their Black identity challenges us to examine how to leverage curriculum and pedagogy to affirm the racial identities of all Black girls.
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"Leadership and Adolescent Girls, a Qualitative Study of Leadership Development"
American Journal of Community Psychology, 2008 | Michael A. Hoyt and Cara L. Kennedy | This research investigated youth leadership experiences of adolescent girls who participated in a comprehensive feminist-based leadership program [Sadie Nash Leadership Project]. This qualitative study utilized a grounded theory approach to understand changes that occurred in 10 female adolescent participants. Participants identified having examples of women leaders, adopting multiple concepts of leadership, and participating in an environment of mutual respect and trust as factors that contributed to their expanded conceptualization.
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Building Positive Relationships with Adolescents in Educational Contexts: Principles and Practices for Educators in School & Community Settings,
In Toward a Positive Psychology of Relationships: New Directions in Theory and Research, 2017 | Gretchen Brion-Meisels, Deepa Vasudevan, and Jessica Fei., Harvard Graduate School of Education | This chapter describes a set of principles and practices that underlie positive relationships between adults and adolescents in educational settings, including schools and community-based programs.
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The Presence of Joy: Race, Space, and the Secrets of Teaching BIPOC Youth
NYU Center for Policy, Research, and Evaluation at the Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools, 2021 | This webinar is the culmination of a year of research, guided by a youth advisory board, that examines the culturally responsive-sustaining education and the secrets for teaching our children. NYU Metro Center hosted five organizations (including Sadie Nash) to share their programmatic and educational strategies for centering youth and challenging the systems that oppress them.