Katherine (Katie) E. Richards-Schuster

CASC Undergraduate Minor Director, Assistant Research Scientist and LEO Lecturer III

Degrees

BA, Political Science, 1994, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor;
MA, Social Service Administration, 1997, University of Chicago, Illinois;
PhD, Social Work and Sociology, 2005, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

BioSketch

Katie Richards-Schuster is an assistant research scientist in the School of Social Work's Program for Youth and Community. Her research focuses on youth participation strategies and community-based participatory evaluation with young people.

She has participated in numerous research efforts including Lifting New Voices, a national pilot project on youth participation, and the Training Program on Participatory Evaluation for Young People. More recently she has been involved with a statewide study of youth participation in public policy in Michigan municipalities and a youth-led, multicultural participatory evaluation of the Youth Dialogues on Race and Ethnicity in Metropolitan Detroit.

She has worked with youth-adult committees in some of the nation's lowest-income communities and with national networks of scholars and practitioners in the youth and community field. She has organized and presented at national meetings, created curricular workbooks, and co-authored multiple publications in leading youth development, community organization, and program evaluation journals.

Personal Information

Email

kers@umich.edu

Mailbox

167

Location

Room:	3831 SSWB
Phone:	(734) 615-2118
Fax:	(734) 763-3372

University of Michigan
School of Social Work
1080 S. University
Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Selected Publications

Checkoway, B., Figueroa, L., & Richards-Schuster, K. (2008). Youth force in the south Bronx. In D. Brotheron & M. Flynn (Eds.), Globalizing the Streets: Cross-Cultural Perspective on Youth, Social Control and Empowerment. New York: Columbia University Press.

Dobbie, D., & Richards-Schuster, K. (2008). Building solidarity through difference: A practice model for critical multicultural organizing. Journal of Community Practice, 16(3), 317-337.

Checkoway, B. N., & Richards-Schuster, K. (2006). Youth participation for educational reform in low-income communities of color. In S. Ginwright, P. Noguera, & J. Cammarota (Eds.), Beyond resistance: Youth activism and community change (pp. 319-332). New York: Routledge.