Christina Huerta
Assistant professor
Email: huertac2@vcu.edu
Pronouns: She/her
Areas of expertise
- Adolescent and Youth Development
- Communities and Neighborhoods
- Community-Based Participatory Research
- Family
- Health
- Immigrants and Refugees
- Inequality Poverty and Social Welfare Policy
- Mental Health
- Race and Ethnicity
- Research Design and Measurement
Education and credentials
Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh
M.S.W., Portland State University
B.A., University of California, Riverside
Work
Selected publications
Huerta, C., Gutschow, B., Bañales, J., Boyzo, H., Jenkins, V., Document, P.,Ross SE., Goodkind S., & Ragavan, M. I. (2024). Developing a Youth Participatory Action Research Program for Latine Youth in an Emerging Community. Health Promotion Practice, 25(4), 519-521.
Huerta, C., Randell, K. A., Unger, J., Rothenberger, S., Chaves-Gnecco, D., Barral, R., ... & Ragavan, M. I. (2024). Associations Between Acculturation, Discrimination, and Adolescent Relationship Abuse: A Matched Parent-Adolescent Study of Latine Families. Journal of Interpersonal Violence.
Professional highlights
Teaching areas and interests
- Anti-racist Pedagogy
- Capstone Teaching
- Clinical Work with LGBTQ+ Individuals
- Collaborative teaching and learning
- Community-based research/fieldwork in multicultural societies
- Digital storytelling to promote social justice
- Direct Social Work Clinical Practice
- Experiential learning
- Field education
- Field Liaising
- Grief and loss
- Homelessness
- Interventions for Grief, Loss and Bereavement
- Introductory Social Work
- LGBTQIA+
- Lifespan Development
- Migration Policies and Human Rights
- Psychology
- (Qualitative) Research Methods
- School-based Social Work Practice
- Service Learning and Study Abroad
- Social Justice
- Social Justice and Faith-Based Service Delivery
- Social Policy
- Social Research
- Social Work Practice in Mental Health
- Social Work Practice with Migrants and Refugees
- Social Work Research
- Social Work and the Arts
- Social Work Technology
- Substance Abuse
- Telemental Health
- Transformative and Critical Pedagogy/Andragogy
- Trauma
- Trauma-informed Practice
- Women’s Reproductive Health