Background
Slaughter-Defoe, Diana Tresa was born on October 28, 1941 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Daughter of John Ison and Gwendolyn Malva (Armstead) Slaughter-Defoe.
Slaughter-Defoe, Diana Tresa was born on October 28, 1941 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Daughter of John Ison and Gwendolyn Malva (Armstead) Slaughter-Defoe.
Graduate School Education.
Instructor department psychiatry Howard University, Washington,1967-1968. Research associate, assistant professor Yale University Child Study Center, New Haven, 1968-1970. Assistant professor department behavioral science and education University of Chicago, 1970-1977.
Assistant to associate professor education and African American studies and Center forUrban Affairs and Policy Research (now Institute for Policy Research) Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 1977-1990, professor, 1990-1997.
Constance East. Clayton professor urban education, Graduate School Education, University of Pennsylvania, 1998. Member of national advisory board Federal Center for Child Abuse & Neglect, 1979-1982, coordinator Human Development and Social Policy Program, 1994-1997.
Member of national advisory board Learning Research and Development Center U. Pittsburgh, Ednl. Research & Development Center, University Texas, Austin.
Formerly chairman, director public policy program committee Chicago Black Child Development Institute, 1982-1984.
Director Illinois Infant Mental Health Committee, 1982-1983. Member research advisory board Chicago Urban League, 1986-1997.
Fellow APA (member division ethnic and minority affairs, commission on children, youth & families, development psychology, school psychology, board science affairs 1995-1997. Member Society for Research in Child Development (governing county 1981-1987), American Ednl. Research Association (editorial board Review Ednl.
Research), Association Black Psychologists, National Head Start (past
Married Michael Defoe (divorced).