Natasha J. Cabrera, Ph.D, is Professor of Human Development at the University of Maryland, in the department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology. She investigates father involvement and children’s social and cognitive development; adaptive and maladaptive factors related to parenting; cultural variation in ethnic minority families; and, the mechanisms linking early experiences to children’s school readiness.  She is the co-editor of the Handbook of Father Involvement: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, 2nd Edition (Taylor & Francis, 2013) and Latina/o Child Psychology and Mental Health: Vol 1 and 2 (Praeger, 2011). She’s the recipient of the National Council and Family Relations award for Best Research Article regarding men in families in 2009. The National Academy of Sciences appointed her to its committee on parents of young children; she was a Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholar and a DAAD visiting scholar, University of Ruhr, Germany. She is co-PI at the National Center for Research on Hispanic Families and Children.