Youth Voices in Dialogue: Multivoiced Narratives of Power, Belonging, and Change with Dr. Svetlana Jović

How do young people make sense of injustice in their lives and communities? What can their stories teach us about resilience, belonging, and human potential in contexts of inequity?

Join Dr. Svetlana Jović for this YouthREX webinar to learn insights from her research on socio-cognitive development among youth growing up in the midst of poverty, migration, and cultural diversity. Drawing on narrative and visual methods — including storytelling, photography, and mapping — Dr. Jović explores how young people “story” their experiences and how shifting perspectives in narrative research can uncover voices that are often silenced.

Participants will be invited to reflect on the power of multivoiced narratives for youth work practice, policy, and research, and to consider storytelling not only as a tool for understanding youth, but also as a resource for fostering equity and wellbeing.

We will use Zoom for this webinar. Closed captions will be available for all participants. You will receive the link to join the live webinar by email and the Zoom Meeting details will be accessible through the Online event page (click on the Access link button above).

About Dr. Svetlana Jović

Svetlana is an Associate Professor of Developmental Psychology at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Old Westbury. A sociocultural psychologist, she specializes in critical sociocultural analysis using narrative, sociolinguistic, visual, and spatial methods. Her research examines how children and youth develop in contexts shaped by poverty, migration, cultural diversity, and integration.

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