Speaker bio:

Leslie Leve, PhD, is the Lorry Lokey chair in education at the University of Oregon. She also holds a visiting scholar appointment at the University of Cambridge, UK. Leslie was trained in developmental psychology and has worked for the past 25 years on the intersection between child development and prevention science. With more than 230 publications, her research focuses on child, adolescent, and family well-being using longitudinal studies and intervention designs, including a longitudinal adoption study. She is particularly interested in community-based research with underserved populations and families involved in service systems, including foster care, juvenile justice, adoption, and K-12 school settings. Leslie co-directs a national center on parenting in the context of opioid use and co-directs the Early Growth and Development Study focused on adoptive and birth families. She serves on the National Scientific Council for the Center for the Developing Adolescent and on the Advisory Council for the Northwest Prevention Technology Transfer Center. In her administrative roles, Leslie has been an associate vice president for research, associate director of the Prevention Science Institute, and department head at the University of Oregon, and is a former president of the Society for Prevention Research.