Vonnie C. McLoyd, Professor of Psychology, University of Michigan

Vonnie C. McLoyd is the Ewart A. C. Thomas Collegiate Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan—Ann Arbor. A developmental psychologist, McLoyd studies the pathways by which family-level poverty and economic stress influence family life and children’s socioemotional adjustment and processes that buffer the adverse effects of these experiences. She was a member of the National Academies of Sciences Consensus Committee on “Building an Agenda to Reduce the Number of Children in Poverty by Half in 10 Years,” which issued its report in 2019 titled “A Roadmap to Reducing Child Poverty.” She is past Associate Editor of Child Development and American Psychologist. Currently, she is co-Director of the University of Michigan Developmental Psychology Training Program on Context and Human Neurobiology funded by NICHD.