Visiting Scholar Speaker Series: Dana Miller Cotto

To enrich Penn GSE’s ongoing dialogues around this year’s One Book, Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen by Jose Antonio Vargas, national scholars have been invited to share their insightful research. Talks will center on the intersectionality of the book’s themes and our GSE academic divisions (HDQM, POLS, ELX, LTL). Students, staff, and faculty are encouraged to attend.

Dana Miller Cotto is an assistant professor of Psychological Sciences at Kent State University. She earned her Ph.D. from Temple University and a bachelor’s degree from the City University of New York. Her research aims to understand the role of context and early life experiences in children’s early development, particularly regarding school readiness. Her work has been published in outlets such as Journal of Educational Psychology, Child Development, and Developmental Psychology.