Catie Connolly

Catie Connolly is a PhD Candidate in Developmental and Psychological Sciences. She received her BA in Psychology and English Literature from Columbia University in 2018.

Her research examines diverse development of social-emotional skills in early childhood, and equitable measurement and assessment tools to capture all children’s skills. Catie’s work through the SFUSD-Stanford Research Practice Partnership incorporates perspectives from children, parents, teachers, and trained outside assessors to form a cohesive understanding of social-emotional development in racially/ethnically, socioeconomically, and linguistically diverse populations. 

Her research aims to promote equity and anti-racism beginning with the equitable measurement of children’s foundational social-emotional skills in early childhood. More generally, she is especially interested in better understanding the development of emotion regulation processes in early childhood and the role of family systems in sibling-to-sibling social-emotional development.