ASSOCIATE EDITORS

Jason Boardman is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 2002. He is a research associate in the Institute of Behavioral Science and associate director of the CU Population Center (www.colorado.edu/IBS). His work focuses on the role of residential context as a determinant of adolescent development and well-being throughout the lifecourse and he has recently begun to examine the interaction between social and biological factors within a social epidemiological framework. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on the social demography of race and several courses on statistics.

Ben Kirshner is assistant professor of education in the areas of educational psychology and adolescent development. His research examines learning and development in elective learning environments, including youth activism, college access programs, and various forms of project-based learning. He is currently designing a participatory action research study with high school students in Denver, Colorado. Dr. Kirshner’s publications have discussed youth-adult research partnerships, youth civic engagement, and cultural influences on identity development.  He is a member of the American Educational Research Association and the Society for Research on Adolescence.  From 1993 to 1997 he was education program manager in a youth organization in San Francisco’s Mission District.

Jill Litt received her doctorate in environmental health policy from the
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is an assistant professor at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in the Department of Preventive Medicine and Biostatistics and at University of Colorado-Boulder in the Environmental Studies program. Dr. Litt's research has focused on understanding the impact of the urban environment on population health with a particular interest in the consequences of chemical exposures and degraded physical and social environments on neighborhood health and well-being. She is currently the Chair of the Environment Section of the American Public Health Association.