Katherine E. Richards-Schuster

Assistant Professor of Social Work

Degrees

BA, Political Science, 1994, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor;
MA, Social Service Administration, 1997, University of Chicago, Illinois;
PhD, Social Work and Sociology, 2005, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

BioSketch

Katie Richards-Schuster is an assistant research scientist in the School of Social Work's Program for Youth and Community. Her research focuses on youth participation strategies and community-based participatory evaluation with young people.

She has participated in numerous research efforts including Lifting New Voices, a national pilot project on youth participation, and the Training Program on Participatory Evaluation for Young People. More recently she has been involved with a statewide study of youth participation in public policy in Michigan municipalities and a youth-led, multicultural participatory evaluation of the Youth Dialogues on Race and Ethnicity in Metropolitan Detroit. She is also a member of the SSW Community Organization Learning Community.

She has worked with youth-adult committees in some of the nation's lowest-income communities and with national networks of scholars and practitioners in the youth and community field. She has organized and presented at national meetings, created curricular workbooks, and co-authored multiple publications in leading youth development, community organization, and program evaluation journals.

Katherine E. Richards-Schuster, Assistant Professor of Social Work

Email

kers@umich.edu

Web Sites

http://ssw.umich.edu/about/profiles/profile-kers.html

Location

Room:	3831 SSWB
Phone:	(734) 615-2118
Fax:	(734) 763-3372

University of Michigan
School of Social Work
1080 S. University
Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Selected Publications

Richards-Schuster, K., & O'Doherty, R (in press). Staying home: Appalachian youth re-envision their identities, reconstruct community and take action. In S. Fisher, & B. Smith (Eds.), The struggle for Appalachia: Identity, place and movement-building. Champaign-Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

Aldana, A., Rowley, S., Checkoway, B., Richards-Schuster, K. (2012). Raising ethnic-racial consciousness: The relationships between intergroup dialogues and adolescents' ethnic-racial identity and racism awareness. Equity & Excellence in Education, 45(1), 120-137.

Checkoway, B., & Richards-Schuster, K. (2011). Youth participation in community research for racial justice. In P. Nyden (Ed.), Public sociology: Research, action, and change.

Richards-Schuster, K. (2009). Speaking for themselves: Multicultural, participatory evaluation with young people. In X. Ucar (Ed.), Enfoques y experiencias internacionales. Barcelona: GRAO.

Richards-Schuster, K., & Checkoway, B. (2009). Youth participation in public policy at the local level: New lessons from Michigan municipalities. National Civic Review, 98, 26-31.

Checkoway, B., Figueroa, L., & Richards-Schuster, K. (2008). Youth force in the south Bronx. In D. Brotheron & M. Flynn (Eds.), Globalizing the streets: Cross-cultural perspective on youth, social control and empowerment. New York: Columbia University Press.

Dobbie, D., & Richards-Schuster, K. (2008). Building solidarity through difference: A practice model for critical multicultural organizing. Journal of Community Practice, 16(3), 317-337.