AC21 - Science Plenary - Resilience In Development: Vulnerability And Opportunity In Early Childhood

Professor Masten is a Regents Professor and the Irving B. Harris Professor of Child Development at the University of Minnesota and a licensed psychologist. She completed her PhD in clinical psychology at Minnesota with an internship at UCLA and joined the Institute of Child Development at Minnesota in 1986. Dr. Masten is internationally known for her research on resilience in human development, particularly in the context of homelessness, poverty, war, disaster, and migration. Dr. Masten is a past President of the Society for Research in Child Development, recipient of numerous honors, and author of more than 200 publications, including the book, Ordinary Magic: Resilience in Development. She offers a free MOOC (Mass Open Online Course) on "Resilience in Children Exposed to Trauma, Disaster and War" that has been taken thousands of participants from more than 180 countries.

Joy D. Osofsky, Ph.D. is a clinical and developmental psychologist, Ramsay Endowed  Chair and Barbara Lemann Professor of Child Welfare at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans. She has published widely and authored or edited eight books on trauma in the lives of children. Currently, together with three colleagues, she is editing the two volume WAIMH Handbook of Infant and Early  Childhood Development. Dr. Osofsky is past president of ZERO to THREE and of the World  Association for Infant Mental Health. She has been awarded as an Honorary President of  WAIMH and currently serves on the Board of Zero to Three. She has had much experience  with response to disasters playing a leadership role as Clinical Director for Child and Adolescent Initiatives for Louisiana Spirit, the Crisis Counseling Program following Hurricane Katrina and  Co-Principal Investigator for the Mental Health Capacity  Program following the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. She has served as Co-Principal of Centers within the National Child Traumatic Stress Network since 2003 and in 2007 received the  Sarah Haley Award for Clinical Excellence in work with trauma by the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.  In 2010 she was recognized with the Reginald Lourie Award for leadership and outstanding contributions to the health and welfare of children and families. In 2020, she was awarded the Translational Research Award from the International Congress on Infant Studies. In 2021, she received the ZERO TO THREE Lifetime Achievement Award.