Trenel E. Francis is a doctoral student in the Psychology and Social Intervention (PSI) program at NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, Department of Applied Psycology. Her current research interests include exploring and understanding parental academic expectations, parental involvement, and other academic socialization practices among racial-ethnic minority and immigrant families with an anti-deficit lens. Specifically, in her work, she examines how these parental expectations, beliefs, and practices influence adolescents' academic outcomes. At NYU, Trenel works alongside Dr. Diane L. Hughes on a longitudinal, mixed methods study that explores how early adolescents learn race. She has also contributed to literature on immigrant children's access to health and human services as well as literature on hooking up behavior and emerging adults' relationship attitudes and expectations, which she worked on while serving as a summer undergraduate research assistant in the Today's Couples and Families Lab at the University of Cincinnati. Trenel has a Bachelor's of Science with Honors degree in Human Development and minor in education from Cornell University.