Kierra Sattler is an Assistant Professor of Human Development and Family Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Kierra’s research broadly focuses on risk and resilience among families in poverty and families involved in child protective services. She uses both large secondary data and administrative data sources. Kierra incorporates interdisciplinary and quantitative methods to investigate the processes of resilience, the experiences of children in foster care, and the intersection between child care and child protective services. Kierra was previously a postdoctoral fellow in the Health Disparities Research Scholars Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She earned her M.A./PhD in Human Development and Family Sciences from the University of Texas at Austin.