Meriah DeJoseph is a NICHD F32 Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University’s Center on Early Childhood. Her research examines how the type and timing of experiences associated with growing up in poverty alter children’s cognitive, learning, and self-regulation development. She takes a strength-based developmental approach that focuses on identifying adaptive responses to poverty-related experiences. She draws upon a range of statistical and computational methods to examine these links across levels of behavior, physiology, and the brain. This work aims to amplify the needs of economically marginalized children to better inform the design and evaluation of culturally responsive interventions, policies, and educational curricula.