Melissa Y. Delgado, Ph.D.

Melissa Y. Delgado, Ph.D., joined CDBB as a 2024-2025 American Association for the Advancement of Science/Society for Research in Child Development Policy Fellow. Dr. Delgado is on a leave from her position as associate professor (tenured) in human development and family science at the University of Arizona (UA) to complete this fellowship. 

Over the past two decades, Dr. Delgado has conducted longitudinal and cross-sectional studies examining parent-child relationships, stress processes, and adaptive cultural responses in minoritized children and families. Her research demonstrates how sociocultural stressors affect both parents and children concurrently within the family unit. She employs mixed methods approaches, combining qualitative narratives with quantitative survey responses to provide a holistic understanding of youth-nuanced contextual processes. 

Dr. Delgado earned her Ph.D., M.S., and B.S. in family and human development from Arizona State University (ASU), with a statistics doctoral collateral area; she also earned a B.A. in psychology from ASU and completed training as a W. T. Grant Foundation postdoctoral fellow.