Our Founder, Dr. Yalda T. Uhls, was a guest on the Adaptivity Podcast. Listen to the episode “Social Adaptivity: Developing Positive Relationship Skills in a Rapidly Changing World” here.
CSS is mentioned in this story from ABC News about the Surgeon General’s youth mental health summit and the organizations working to respond to his call to action about the youth mental health crisis.
ars TECHNICA interviewed our founder, Dr. Yalda T. Uhls, about our media & teen mental health report in this piece about 13 Reasons Why and the academic discourse surrounding the show.
Our founder, Dr. Yalda T. Uhls was a panelist on the main stage at APA 2021 for the talk The Entertainment Industry and Psychology: Changing the Way We Think About Mental Health.
Our founder, Dr. Yalda T. Uhls, was featured in this piece from USA Today about how TV shows are teaching kids about LGBTQ+ issues.
Our AIR Report was featured in this piece from Los Angeles Magazine about how Disneyland is boosting its efforts to promote diversity within its programming.
This article from Fox about Rita Moreno’s comments after the release of In the Heights mentioned our AIR Report.
Our founder, Dr. Yalda T. Uhls, and our research assistant, Jeremy Hsing, wrote an op-ed for Forbes about diversity and the Oscars.
We are featured in this piece from The Wrap about our partnership with CAA’s Full Story Initiative and an upcoming research report we will be releasing with the agency.
Our founder, Dr. Yalda T. Uhls, is quoted in this article in UCLA Magazine about taking tech breaks.
Our founder, Dr. Yalda T. Uhls, was quoted in this piece from USA today about what kids and their parents are learning about tech one year into the pandemic.
Our AIR Report was referenced in this article from Deadline about a study on Black representation from McKinsey & Company.
Dr. Yalda T. Uhls and Gerald D. Higginbotham and their work on our AIR Report were acknowledged in this study on Black representation in film and TV from McKinsey & Company.
Vicki Ariyasu, SVP, Disney Channels Worldwide Educational Resource Group and Diversity & Inclusion at the Walt Disney Company, mentioned partnering with CSS in her blog Diversity, Belonging, and Racial Justice for the Joan Ganz Cooney Center.
The Future of Children’s Programming: Making Authentic the New Aspirational. CSS Partnered with the Television Academy for an event about socioeconomic diversity. Check it out here!
Our research report exploring gender and racial representation in live theatre for young audiences was featured in the New York Times.
Dr. Yalda T. Uhls’ article was featured in The Conversation and the UCLA Newsroom: Mobile technology may support kids learning to recognize emotions in photos of faces.
CSS Collaborator Dr. Ellen Wartella was featured in Forbes for her article about kids’ screen time during the pandemic.
The Center for Scholars & Storytellers Foster Care Media Initiative was featured in UCLA Ed&IS Online Magazine.
Our Founder, Dr. Yalda T. Uhls, had her research featured in the UCLA Newsroom: Do I look mad? Reading facial cues with the touch-screen generation
Dr. Yalda T. Uhls spoke at The Actors Equity Fund’s Parent's Group Leadership Meeting.
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Dr. Yalda T. Uhls was a featured speaker at the University of Riverside’s Development Psychology Forum.
Our Founder and Executive Director, Yalda T. Uhls, was featured in NBC news speaking about expectations of gifts during the holidays.
Dr. Yalda T. Uhls moderated a panel for UCLA Pritzker Center’s Foster Film screening.
Our Founder and Executive Director, Yalda T. Uhls, was featured in Dame Magazine speaking about the pressure Instagram instills on young people.
Dr. Yalda T. Uhls presented the webinar “Storytelling 101: How Media Making Impacts Cognitive Development” sponsored by Britannica Digital Learning
Featured on a panel for Advertising Week focused on the best ways to communicate with Gen Z and Gen Alpha in a meaningful and responsible way
We are honored to be part of Barbie’s amazing Dream gap initiative. Read more about our work and the initiative here featured in Business Wire.
We are honored to have our work featured in UCLA Magazine about our work in how entertainment media can highlight issues surrounding foster care in collaboration with the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.
Our Founder and Executive Director, Yalda T. Uhls, was featured in AP News speaking about HBO’s new series “Euphoria.”
Our Co-Director, Kim Wilson, was featured in Britannica Digital speaking about media literacy.
Our Founder and Executive Director, Yalda T. Uhls, was featured in USA Today speaking about YOLO, a new anonymous app.
We are honored to have received the Technology and Adolescent Mental Wellness (TAM) grant from University of Wisconsin’s Social Media and Adolescent Health Research Team (SMAHRT).
This article features actionable insights from Dr. Yalda T. Uhls’ speech to delegates at the #SeeHer 2019 Creative and Media Leadership Summit in New York.
Featured in an article in The Hollywood Reporter, quoting Dr. Yalda T. Uhls about fan engagement with the Marvel Cinematic Universe
CSS Co-Director Dr. Colleen Russo Johnson was featured in the Globe and Mail talking about a research report she co-wrote on the Landscape of Children's TV. Read the full report here.
CSS Collaborator, Roberta Golinkoff, was quoted in The Atlantic.
Dr. Yalda T. Uhls took part in a panel on unconscious bias at BU Envisions the Future at Paramount Pictures Studios.
We are working on a new TV show called Ink with Paramount TV, with Dana Fox and Dara Resnick as showrunners, Jon M. Chu directing and Anonymous Content as EPs.
We are honored to have received grants from the Society for Research in Child Development and the John Templeton Foundation.
Dr. Yalda T. Uhls gave a keynote talk at the Disney Channels Television Group Diversity and Inclusion event.
Dr. Colleen Russo Johnson was quoted in The Atlantic.
We were extremely honored to have made it to the final round of the esteemed National Academy of Science’s Nakfi Challenge. They began with 80 proposals. Our proposal went through 2 rounds to end up in the final 8. While we didn’t end up getting chosen, we were honored that our proposal was deemed strong enough to make it to the final selection committee (the Presidents of the 3 Academies).
On 9/22 Meg LeFauve (Inside Out) and Dr. Yalda T. Uhls moderated a panel at the WGA called The Streaming Age: Creating Content that Resonates with Tweens and Teens.
