Room 736(B)N
Tel: (212) 650-3537
Lab phone: (212) 650-3538
Email: rflores@hunter.cuny.edu

Roseanne L. Flores is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at HunterCollege of the City University of New York. She received her PhD from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is a Developmental Psychologist by training and was a National Head Start Fellow in the Office of Head Start in Washington, DC in 2009-2010. In addition to her work at the Office of Head Start Roseanne also worked at the Institute of Education Science in the National Center for Education Research creating a template for the dissemination of assessments instruments developed from research in the field. Prior to coming to the Office of Head Start, Dr. Flores was a Visiting Scholar at the Educational Testing Service in Princeton, NJ during the summer of 2009 where she worked in the areas of assessment, research and policy. More recently she served as a reviewer for the Race to the Top -- Early Learning Challenge grant. She is currently serving as a member of the Committee on Children, Youth and Families at the American Psychological Association. For more information see http://www.apa.org/pi/families/committee/index.aspx.

Dr. Flores has expertise in both quantitative and qualitative research methods, statistics, testing and measurement, and linguistic, cognitive and social development of children across various ages and cultural groups. Some of her current research examines the relationship between environmental risk factors, such as community violence, SES, obesity and food insecurity on the health and educational outcomes of minority children.