Andrea Medrano

Assistant Professor

University of Pittsburgh

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Location: PittsburghPA

Educational Degree(s):
• Bachelor's
• Master's
• PhD

Discipline: Psychology and Social Work

Years of Experience: 6-10 years

Victimization Focus

• Children Exposed to Violence
• Community Violence
• Dating Violence (Teen)
• Sexual Abuse or Violence

Special Populations

• Rural
• Urban
• Women and girls of color

Victim Research Expertise

• Community-based participatory research
• Data collection
• Qualitative studies
• Quantitative studies

Additional Research Expertise

• Action research
• Community-based participatory research
• Data collection
• Descriptive studies
• Program evaluation
• Qualitative studies
• Quantitative studies

About the Researcher

My program of research focuses on contextual aspects of neighborhoods—such as exposure to community violence and sexual harassment— and their influence on adolescents’ psychological and academic functioning. I use a resilience framework and strengths-based perspective to identify individual-, family-, neighborhood-, and cultural-level protective factors that can buffer adolescents from negative outcomes. My work focuses on Latino/a/x adolescents and their parents both in the U.S. and in Mexico, and increasingly, in the intersection of multiple marginalized identities. To study adolescent development, I use diverse methodological approaches, including cross-sectional and longitudinal statistical analyses, qualitative, and mixed-method approaches.