Publications

• Full list of team publications can be found here
• “1” indicates graduate student; “2” indicates undergraduate student

¹ Thursby-Bourke, K., Sánchez, B., 1 Monjaras-Gaytan, L. Y., & Rasgado-Flores, H. (2023). The role of family in Latinx students’ science education and careers. Journal of Latinx Psychology. Manuscript accepted for publication.

¹Garcia-Murillo, Y., Sánchez, B., Carter, J. S., McMahon, S., & Schwartz, S. (2023). Natural mentoring among college students of color: Considerations for their ethnic-racial identity and psychological well-being. Journal of Community Psychology. Advanced online publication. DOI: 10.1002/jcop.23064

¹Monjaras-Gaytan, L., & Sánchez, B. (2023). Historically underrepresented college students and natural mentoring: A systematic review. Children and Youth Services Review. Advanced online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2023.106965

¹Anderson, A. J., Riordan, A., Smith, L., Hillard, B., & Sánchez, B. (2022). Cultural humility training for mentors: Lessons learned and implications for youth programs. Journal of Youth Development, 17(3), 21-38.

¹O’Donnell, A., ¹Harris, K., Sánchez, B., ¹Thursby, K. (2022). The roles of cultural mistrust and mentoring inLatinx adolescents’ attitudes toward school. Journal of Research on Adolescence. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/jora.12758

Sánchez, B., ¹Garcia-Murillo, Y., ¹Monjaras-Gaytan, L. Y., ¹Thursby, K., ¹Ulerio, G., ¹de los Reyes, W., Salusky, I.R., & ¹Rivera, C. S. (2022). Everyday acts of resistance: Mexican, undocumented immigrant youth navigating oppression in education with mentor support. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 32(2), 398-416.

¹Rivera, C., Salusky, I. R., Sánchez, B., & Torres, S. (2022). The structural violence of DACA and youthresistance. Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology. Advanced online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/cdp0000527

¹Anderson, A.J., & Sánchez, B. (2022). A pilot evaluation of a social justice and race equity training for volunteer mentors. American Journal of Community Psychology, 69(1), 3-17. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajcp.12541

Sánchez, B., ¹ Mroczkowski, A.L., Flores, L. Y., ¹ de los Reyes, W., Ruiz, J., & Rasgado-Flores, H. (2022). How mentors contribute to Latinx youth’s social capital in the sciences. Journal of Adolescent Research, 37(1), 128-161. https://doi.org/10.1177/0743558420985454

¹O’Donnell, A., Sánchez, B., & Grant, K. (2022). Latinx adolescents’ trust in adults: A precursor to psychological well-being via mentoring relational quality and self-esteem. Journal of Community Psychology, 53(2), 1681-1699. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcop.22748

Sánchez, B., Anderson, A. J., Weiston-Serdan, T., & Catlett, B. S. (2021). Anti-racism education and training for adult mentors who work with BIPOC adolescents. Journal of Adolescent Research, 36(6), 686-716. https://doi.org/10.1177/07435584211043288

¹Monjaras-Gaytan, L. Y., Sánchez, B., Salusky, I., Schwartz, S. (2021). Historically underrepresented college students and institutional natural mentors: An ecological analysis of the development of these relationships at Predominantly White Institutions. Journal of Community Psychology, 50, 823-839. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcop.22682

Sánchez, B. & Brittian Loyd, A. L. (2020, June 4). How mentors and mentoring programs can support mentees’ ethnic/racial identity. The Chronicle of Evidenced Based Mentoring.

Anderson, A.J. & Sánchez, B. (2018, July). You can make better mentors. Community Psychology: Social Justice Through Research and Action.

Sánchez, B. (2018, April 9). The power of the Latina professor in the classroom. Latino Rebels.

Sánchez, B. (2017, October 30). Allowing Boys of Color to Be Emotionally Vulnerable. Latino Rebels.

Sánchez, B. (2017, March 7). Are current mentoring models bad for kids’ health? National Mentoring Resource Center Blog.

Ferrera, M., & Sánchez, B. (2017, February 13). We have your back: How educators can support undocumented students. Diverse Issues in Higher Education.

Sánchez, B. (2016). Mentoring for Black Male Youth. National Mentoring Resource Center.

¹Chung, H., Sánchez, B., ¹Bourke, K., Jarvis, N., Sanford-Dolly, C., Kennedy, M., ¹Arsenault, A., & ¹Garcia-Murillo, Y.(2023, June). Gaining awareness of inequality in education: Mentors’ perspectives in a science mentoring Program. In A. Anderson (Chair), Moving Toward Social Justice: Exploring Changes to Mentor Cultural Humility in Youth Mentoring Interventions. Symposium presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Community Research & Action, Atlanta, GA.

¹de los Reyes, W., Draper, C., Barraza, R. & Sánchez, B. (2023, April). The role of mentors in the critical civic engagement of immigrant-origin Latinx youth.  Poster blitz presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence, San Diego, CA.  

¹Lee, S., Griffith, A., & Sánchez, B. (2023, April). Support across cultural differences in youth-adult relationships inyouth programs. Poster to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.

¹Monjaras-Gaytan, L.Y, ²Billups, B., ²Sepulveda, P., Sánchez, B., Salusky, I., & Raposa, E. (2023, April). The formation of institutional natural mentoring relationships of first-generation college students. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence, San Diego, CA.

Dai, T., ¹Chung, H., Sánchez, B., ¹Sack, J., & ¹Monjaras-Gaytan, L. (2023, April). Changes in school outcomes in early high-school years: Importance of intrinsic motivation for urban youth. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of American Educational Research Association. Chicago, IL.

¹de los Reyes, W. & Sánchez, B. (2022, March). Lessons learned in youth participatory processes on Latinx sociopolitical development. In W. de los Reyes (Chair), Agency and Assets among Filipinx, Latinx, Native American, and BIPOC Youth. Symposium presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence, New Orleans, LA. 

 ¹Thursby, K., ¹Monjaras-Gaytan, L. Y., Sánchez, B., & Rasgado-Flores, H. (2022, March). The role of family in Latinx students’ science education and careers. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence, New Orleans, Louisiana.

 ¹Garcia-Murillo, Y., Sánchez, B., McMahon, S., ¹Parnes, M., & Schwartz, S. (June, 2021). Ethnic racial identity similarity & support in mentoring. Ignite presentation presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Community Research and Action, virtual conference.