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Molly Bowdring

Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford University
Chapter Member: Bay Area SSN
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About Molly

Dr. Heim LaFrombois’ research focuses on community development, urban inequalities, participatory forms of community planning, public policy, and feminist approaches to urban studies and research. Central to her work is a focus on community engagement as a vehicle for addressing urban inequalities with the goal of informing planning practice and policy and improving cities. Overarching themes include an examination of how urban space is used and by whom, and how urban space is regulated, paying special attention to the roles of race, class, gender, and sexuality; and an examination of how cities’ use and present data to set planning agendas.

Contributions

Talking to Youth of Color about Racism

  • Chardée A. Galán
  • Molly Bowdring
  • Julie Cristello
  • Juan Carlos Gonzalez
  • Nabila Jamal-Orozco
  • Stefanie L. Sequeira ,

In the News

Opinion: "Getting Ahead of a Non-alcoholic Beverage Boom Among Youths," Molly Bowdring (with Aaron S.B. Weiner and Judith Prochaska), STAT News, June 20, 2024.

Publications

"Psychology's Contributions to Anti-Blackness in the United States within Psychological Research, Criminal Justice, and Mental Health" (with Evan Auguste, Molly Bowdring, Steven William Kasparek, Jeanne McPhee, Alexandra Tabachnick, and Irene Tung). PsyArXiv Preprints (2022).

Draws from existing theory and empirical evidence to demonstrate historical and contemporary examples of psychology’s oppression of Black people through research and clinical practices and consider how this history directly contradicts the American Psychological Association (APA)’s ethics code.

"Combatting the Conspiracy of Silence: Clinician Recommendations for Talking About Racism-Related Events With Youth of Color" (with Molly Bowdring, Chardée A. Galán, Juan Carlos Gonzalez, Nabila Jamal-Orozco, Stefanie L. Sequeira, Irene Tung, Alexandra Tabachnick, Derek M. Novacek, Isabella Kahhale, and Beza M. Bekele). Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (2021).

Discusses key clinician recommendations for talking about racism and racism-related events with youth of color.