Youth and Environmental Justice Publications
Jesica S. Fernández applies her community-engaged research expertise to document and support youth sociopolitical development at the intersections of environmental justice and community wellbeing.
Fernández, J. S., & Nichols, L. A. (2025). Mosaicos de la Comunidad (Mosaics of the Community): Community-Engaged Participatory Muraling with Madres Emprendedoras. Social Sciences, 14(1), 25.
Fernández, J. S., Govan, R. H., Kirshner, B., Tivaringe, T., & Watts, R. (2024). Youth community organizing groups fostering sociopolitical wellbeing: Three healing-oriented values to support activism. Youth, 4(3), 1004-1025.
Fernández, J. S. (2024). Abolition psychology: Principles for a decolonial liberation psychology hacia El Mundo Zurdo. Annual Review of Critical Psychology, 18, 1147-1175.
Kirshner, B., Salazar, B., Hunter, L., Fernández, J., & Mendoza, E. (2024). Healing justice in youth organizations and schools: Research methods and ethical provocations. In 4th Annual Meeting of the International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS).
Fernández, J. S., & Fine, M. (2024). Methodological retrospective: Critical participatory action research. Qualitative Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/qup0000321.
Fernández, J. S. (2024). The Youth for Justice Project: Reflections from a racial environmental justice photovoice collaboration. The Community Psychologist, 57(1-2), 6-8.
Fernández, J. S. (2024, July 2). Lessons from childhood for enacting a decolonial citizenship praxis. Decolonial Dialogues [blog post].
Fernández, J. S. (2024, March 18). Step 3 of the Photovice Path: Discuss photos and reflection experiences. LinkedIn [blog post].
Dutta, U., Fernández, J. S., Galletta, A., & Langhout, R. D. (2023). Participatory action research as movement toward radical relationality, epistemic justice, and transformative intervention: A multivocal reflection. In H. Cooper, M. N. Coutanche, L. M. McMullen, A. T. Panter, D. Rindskopf, & K. J. Sher (Eds.), APA handbook of research methods in psychology: Research designs: Quantitative, qualitative, neuropsychological, and biological (vol. 2, 2nd ed., pp. 305-327). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Fernández, J. S. & Watts, R. J. (2023). Sociopolitical development as emotional work: How young organizers engage emotions to support community organizing for transformative racial justice. Journal of Adolescent Research, 38(4), 697-725.
Fernández, J. S. (2021). Growing Up Latinx: Coming of age in a time of contested citizenship. New York: New York University Press.
Kirshner, B., Tivaringe, T., & Fernández, J. S. (2020). “This was 1976 reinvented:” The role of framing in the development of a South African youth movement. Journal of Community Psychology, 49(8), 3033-3053.
Fernández, J. S., Nguyen, A., & Langhout, R.D. (2015). “It’s a puzzle!” Elementary school-aged youth concept-mapping the intersections of community narratives. International Journal for Research on Extended Education, 3(1), 24-38.
Langhout, R., & Fernández, J. (2015). Empowerment evaluation conducted by fourth- and fifth-grade students. In D. M. Fetterman, S. J. Kaftarian, & A. Wandersman (Eds.), Empowerment evaluation: Knowledge and tools for self-assessment, evaluation capacity building, and accountability (2d ed., pp. 193-232). SAGE Publications, Inc.
Govan, R. H., Fernández, J. S., Lewis, D. G., & Kirshner, B. (2015). International perspectives on youth leadership development through community organizing. Directions for student leadership: Engagement and leadership for social and political change, 148, 87-99.