Honors & Awards

  • Summa Cum Laude, The University of Texas at San Antonio (2024)
  • Distinguished Graduate 2022, Psychology Department San Antonio College (2022)

Contact

  • Academic
    brendav1@stanford.edu
    University - Student Department: Graduate School of Education Position: Graduate

Additional Info

Research Interests

  • Achievement
  • Environmental Education
  • Immigrants and Immigration
  • Learning Differences
  • Lifelong Learning
  • Psychology
  • Race and Ethnicity

Current Research and Scholarly Interests

Brenda Valdes is a PhD student in Developmental and Psychological Sciences at Stanford University. Her work draws on longitudinal quantitative methods to study student development across time, with a focus on language, learning, and academic growth. She is particularly interested in how school and sociocultural contexts interact with individual factors to shape developmental outcomes. Brenda is affiliated with the Padilla Lab and The Gardner Center. Prior to Stanford, she earned her BA in Psychology from the University of Texas at San Antonio, graduating Summa Cum Laude, and brings a strong commitment to advancing equity-driven research through rigorous methodology.

Work Experience

  • Research Assistant, Educational Testing Service (ETS)

    Location

    New Jersey