Sandra Barrueco, Ph.D.
Dr. Barrueco is Assistant Professor of Psychology and Fellow of the Institute
for Policy Research & Catholic Studies at The Catholic University of America.
Dr. Barrueco specializes in the prevention and early intervention of developmental
difficulties, particularly among language-minority, immigrant, and migrant children.
Much of her grant-funded research has focused on early bilingual, socioemotional,
and acculturative processes within the Latino community.
Throughout her training and career, Dr. Barrueco has been dedicated to
learning and utilizing advanced statistics to advance scientific knowledge and
practice with young immigrant children and families. This approach is rooted in
a community-based participatory research framework involving strong collaborations
with families and the local and national programs that serve them. This is
reflected in her involvement in local and national studies with Head Start, Early
Head Start, and Migrant and Seasonal Head Start as well as her appointments as
Board Vice Chair of the DC Bilingual Public Charter School and on the Advisory
Committee of the American Psychological Association Presidential Task Force on
Immigration.