| Lucero Ramirez Varela is a research assistant at the EASEL Lab and the SEED Lab at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) in the USA. Her research interests include socioemotional development in global contexts and peer interactions as mechanisms for fostering positive behaviours. Moreover, she is interested in developing and implementing educational interventions based on developmental science and prevention research. Before coming to the HGSE, she worked as a project manager in the Evaluation Centre at the University of The Andes in Colombia. There, she assessed school climate and socioemotional competencies in elementary school students. Previously, she was a project coordinator at Colombia’s National Ministry of Education, where she participated in the first national quality measurement of early childhood education services. She holds an EdM in prevention science and practice from the HGSE, an MSc in psychology from the University of The Andes and a bachelor’s in psychology from the same university. |
