Associate Professor, College of Family and Consumer Sciences Dr. Bermudez's research program focuses on strength-based approaches to research and outreach for marginalized populations, specifically, Latinx families and communities. She aims to conduct research that empowers and strengthens her local community.As a scholar, she attends to developmental, intersectional, and contextual issues among immigrant and transnational families. Her research is informed by feminist, decolonizing, and culturally responsive methodologies and her primary research methods include community-based participatory research and qualitative research methods such as interpretive phenomenology and heuristic inquiry.Other research interests include clinical training in Spanish and English, as well as innovative and creative approaches to narrative family therapy.
