Recent Presentations

Rojas-Flores, L. (Mar, 2019). Chair and Presenter, for Symposium entitled Children of Immigrants’ Health: Mobilizing Research, Policy and Practice in a Time of Crisis. 2019 SRCD Biennial Meeting in Baltimore, MD. Gabriela Livas Stein, Discussant.

Rojas-Flores, L. London, J., Ramirez, N, Hwang Koo, J, Salvatierra, A. (Aug 2018). Immigration Policies and the Well-Being of Young Latinos—A Multidisciplinary Approach. Symposium chair, presenter, and discussant at the Div. 27 Community Research in Action Featured Division Session at the Annual American Psychological Association Meeting. San Francisco, CA.

Rojas-Flores, L. (Nov. 2017). Trauma and Psychological Distress among Latino Children in a Time of Heightened Immigration Enforcement. Paper presented at the Issue Intensive Symposium entitled: Supporting Immigrant, Undocumented, and Refugee Families: Fear, Anxiety, and Hope. Zero to Three Annual Conference in San Diego, CA.

Cuervo, I., Flores-Rojas, L., Pineda, A.M., Le Roux, E., and Cadavid, L. (Sept, 2017). Faith and Responses to Sexual Violence in Displacement: Understanding the Colombian faith leaders. Paper presented at the at the 5th international conference by the Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI) Forum 2017 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Mechure, M. and Rojas-Flores, L. (Sept. 2017) Parental immigrant status and Latino citizen children’s academic functioning. Oral presentation presented at the Institute of Violence, Abuse, and Trauma Summit, San Diego, CA.

Rojas-Flores, L. (April 2017). The Plight of Central American Unaccompanied Minors. Presented at Invited SRCD Salon panel on Refugees from the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and Asia: Developmental Status and Global and National Policy Implications at the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) 2017 Biennial Meeting. Austin, TX.