Sharon Lambert

Sharon Lambert is a professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at George Washington University. She completed her doctoral training in Clinical/Community psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, with specializations in developmental psychology and quantitative methods.  Dr. Lambert’s research focuses on how youth and families experience and manage racial discrimination and community violence exposure to inform the design and implementation of culturally and contextually relevant school and community-based preventive interventions.  She also studies individual, interpersonal, and contextual factors that promote health and wellbeing, and protection in the face of adversity.