Christina Cipriano, PhD, EdM
Applied Developmental and Educational Psychologist
A destacar
Associate Professor, Yale Child Study Center, Yale School of Medicine
Director, Education Collaboratory at Yale University
Joseph A. Zins Career Contribution Award for SEL Action Research
National Voice for Change in Education recipient
Christina Cipriano, PhD, EdM, is an applied developmental and educational psychologist as well as an associate professor at the Yale Child Study Center and director of the Education Collaboratory at Yale University. Cipriano’s research promotes equitable and inclusive social and emotional learning.
As an award-winning scholar and internationally regarded expert in the science of learning and development, Cipriano is the principal investigator and director of numerous major federal and foundation grants. She has published over 90 papers, commentaries, and reports. Cipriano serves on the advisory board of the National Center for Learning Disabilities, Teachstone, and The Possible Zone. She was a recipient of the Joseph A. Zins Career Contribution Award for SEL Action Research. She also was named a National Voice for Change in Education.
Cipriano earned her PhD from Boston College in applied developmental and educational psychology, alongside her Certificate in Human Rights and International Justice. She earned her EdM in education policy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and an undergraduate degree in political science from Hofstra University. Cipriano also is a Yale Public Voices Fellow and a Jack Kent Cooke Scholar.
Publications, media, and appearances
Our nation’s public schools are failing neurodivergent learners (EdSurge, 2024)
To the parents who tell their kids don’t stare: From the parent of the child they stare at (Washington Post, 2022)
The state of the evidence for social and emotional learning (Child Development, 2023)