DR. KARLYN ADAMS-WIGGINS
Karlyn Adams-Wiggins is an Assistant Professor of Applied Development Psychology at Portland State University. They are currently the Communications Coordinator (formerly historian) of the Scholarly Consortium for Innovative Psychology in Education (SCIPIE) and the program chair of the American Educational Research Association’s (AERA) Adolescence & Youth Development SIG. Adams-Wiggins earned a PhD in Education (Concentration: Learning, Cognition, Instruction, & Development) from Rutgers University’s Graduate School of Education in 2015. Prior to joining Portland State’s Psychology Department in 2017, they were an Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Texas at Tyler’s School of Education for 2 years.