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<p class="MsoNormal">The Ballmer Institute for Children’s Behavioral
Health and
College of Education invite you to attend the colloquium by
open-rank tenure
track faculty candidate, Dr. Alexis Merculief</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Date & time: <b>Tues. 12/12 @ 10am-11:30am
(PST)</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Zoom link: <a href="https://uoregon.zoom.us/j/92309864521?pwd=Zy9TclFEOVh1M1ZOTFYzdm5PV2x2Zz09" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://uoregon.zoom.us/j/92309864521?pwd=Zy9TclFEOVh1M1ZOTFYzdm5PV2x2Zz09</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Colloquium
Title</b>:
Nurturing Minds and Spirits: The Role of Cultural Resilience for
Indigenous
Child Behavioral and Cognitive Health</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Colloquium
Abstract:</b>
Children from American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) and other
underserved backgrounds
are raised in environments rich with supportive community
relationships and
cultural connections. At the same time, historical trauma and
resulting poverty
have brought systemic barriers to healthy development, including
risks in the
built and social environment. These risks present persistent
stressors that
negatively impact child behavioral and cognitive health. However,
individuals,
families, communities, and cultures bring their own sources of
resilience. One
well known individual resilience factor, and predictor of mental,
physical, and
socioemotional health, is strong self-regulation. Yet, little is
known about
how features of cultural resilience develop alongside and even
support emerging
self-regulation and executive function skills in preschool. With a
focus on
Indigenous theory, Alexis will unpack reconceptualizations of
environmental
risk, resilience, and self-regulation and how these can move the
field forward
with the goal of supporting Indigenous child behavioral health.
Alexis will also
share novel findings from her current work that demonstrate
cultural and
language socialization practices by parents as promoters and
protectors of
child cognitive health. </p>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
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Bio:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;
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EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA"> Alexis Merculief is a developmental
scientist
interested in how features of the built and social environment
influence early
childhood behavioral and cognitive health (specifically, executive
function);
as well as how aspects of community and cultural resilience can
promote
long-term health and academic achievement for children from
American Indian,
Alaska Native, and other underserved populations. Alexis received
her Ph.D. in
Human Development and Family Studies from Oregon State University
in June of
2023, and is currently a postdoctoral fellow with the Equity in
Early
Education (E3) postdoctoral fellowship program at Stanford
University. Alexis
is an Aleut (Unangax) tribal member and previously worked to
promote education,
health, and cultural connection in American Indian/Alaska Native
children
through youth program development at an Urban AI/AN health
organization in
Seattle.</span>
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