Rebekah Levine Coley, PhD

Dr. Coley is Co-Investigator of the Fathers & Families Substudy. She is a Professor and Department Chair in the Counseling, Developmental, and Educational Psychology Department at Boston College. She is also editor of the Child Evidence Brief series, which translates research to inform federal policy. As a developmental psychologist, Dr. Coley has spent her career understanding how families can best support their children’s healthy development, and how schools, communities, and government programs facilitate or constrain parents’ efforts. Her research focuses particularly on delineating how economic and social inequality affects children and families. In this work, she seeks to identify and test policies and programs that successfully counteract inequities and allow all children and families to thrive.

Rebekah has two young adult daughters and has been exceedingly grateful to have raised her children in partnership with an exceptionally involved and fantastic father.