Yushan Zhao is a third-year Ph.D. student in the Human Development Graduate Program at UC Davis. She has an interest in family resilience among stepfamilies. Her research has involved identifying protective factors, such as parental practices and school support, for adolescents in stepfamilies in China and the U.S. Yushan currently leads the Chinese Stepfamily Scholars Club, where young Chinese scholars, including graduate students, hold biweekly reading sessions to discuss recent publications on stepfamilies. Please feel free to reach out if you are interested in joining. Her research also examines the sense of belonging experienced by college students from various demographic backgrounds. She focuses on the impact of this sense of belonging on students' college success, especially in terms of academic achievement. Yushan is currently analyzing the UC Davis Sense of Belonging Intervention Data Set to study the relationship between students' sense of belonging and their class attendance. Before commencing her Ph.D., Yushan volunteered with the Chinese Parents Association for the Disabled, providing services to ChineseAmerican children with developmental disabilities. Email: yzhao4@unc.edu (primary) or  zzhaoyushan@gmail.com.