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Biography
Dr. Steven Holochwost is a developmental psychologist who works with programs designed to improve the lives of vulnerable children and youth. His research in child development examines the effects of environment, and particularly poverty and parenting, on voluntary forms of self-regulation (e.g., executive functions) and the involuntary activity of neurophysiological systems that support self-regulatory abilities. This research is directly relevant to his applied work, which examines the efficacy of educational interventions for children in poverty. The common thread running through both these lines of work is the need to understand how poverty impacts child development, and how programs that expand educational opportunities for children can mitigate those effects. At Lehman he directs the Regulation, Education, and Neuroscience (ReNeu) Lab and co-directs the Research on Advancing Equity through the Arts in Children, or REACH Lab, which is a National Endowment for the Arts Research Lab.
Prior to joining the faculty at Lehman, Dr. Holochwost was Director of Research for Youth and Families at WolfBrown, a research and evaluation firm. He also held positions as Associate Director of Research at the Early Learning Center and as a Senior Assistant Child Advocate with the Office of the Child Advocate for the State of New Jersey. He earned his Ph.D. in developmental psychology from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill as a National Science Foundation Fellow and a masters degree in public affairs from the Fels Institute at the University of Pennsylvania.