Lesa Rae Vartanian

Lesa Rae Vartanian received her M.A. and Ph.D. in developmental psychology with a graduate concentration in gerontology from Northern Illinois University in 1993 and 1997, and her B.A. in communication from Michigan State University in 1990. She serves as the program coordinator of the death education certificate and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender studies certificate. As a life-span developmental psychologist, she teaches courses on child, adolescent, adult development/aging, and death and dying, as well as elementary psychology and critical foundations for psychology majors.

Areas of Interest: social, social-cognitive, and identity development during adolescence, professional development for youth workers, parent-adolescent/emerging adult relationships, death education, grief, and bereavement