Speaker Series
At Georgetown University, Deanna Cooke
is the Assistant Director of
Research at the Center
for Social Justice Research, Teaching and
Service. Dr. Cooke is responsible for promoting and
supporting
relationships between Georgetown University faculty
and students and
Washington DC’s community-based organizations and
service providers for
the purpose of conducting community-based research.
Dr. Cooke has a
diverse background in community-based research, consulting,
applied
research and basic research.
She has a Ph.D. in psychology
from the
University of Michigan where she published her
research related to
race and personal well-being. In particular, she
has addressed the
relationships between experiences of racial discrimination
and academic
performance and self-esteem, the role that racial
identity plays in the
academic performance of African American high school
and college
students, and the conceptualization of racial identity
among African
Americans and South Africans.
Serving in her capacity
at the Center for
Social Justice, Dr. Cooke has taught faculty seminars
on community-based
research, has been an active participant with the
city-wide Community
Research and Learning Network, and is currently working
to re-establish
the Partnership in Urban Research Seminar to focus
on the relationship
between local universities and the Washington Region’s
public schools.
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