Jessica Collura

Jessica started her career as a high school English teacher in Camden, NJ. Her teaching experience fueled her interest in how schools and communities facilitate young people’s growth, development and learning. Jessica’s primary research examines how young people become active contributors to their communities, and how their engagement promotes the healthy development of youth and communities.

Education:

• PhD, Civil Society and Community Research, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2016
• MS, Human Development and Family Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2010
• BS, Psychology and English Literature, Miami University

Select Publications:

Collura, J., Raffle, H., Collins, A., & Kennedy, H. (2019). Creating spaces for young

    people to collaborate to create community change: Ohio’s Youth-Led Initiative. Health

    Education and Behavior, 46(1), 44-52. doi: 10.1177/1090198119853571

Zeldin, S., Gauley, J., Krauss, S.E., Kornbluh, M. & Collura, J. (2015). Youth-adult partnership

    and youth civic development: Cross-national analyses for scholars and field professionals. Youth

    & Society. doi: 10.1177/0044118X15595153

Collura, J. & Christens, B. (2015). Perspectives on systems change among local change

    agents: A comparative study. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 25(1), 19 - 33.

    doi: 10.1002/casp.2192

Flanagan, C., Kim, T., Collura, J., & Kopish, M. (2014). Community service and adolescents’

    social capital. Journal of Research on Adolescence. doi: 10.1111/jora.12137

Christens, B.D., Collura, J., Kopish, M.A., & Varvodic, M. (2014). Youth organizing for

    school and neighborhood improvement. In K.L. Patterson & R.M. Silverman (Eds.), Schools and

    urban revitalization: Rethinking institutions and community development (pp. 151-166).

    New York: Routledge