Geraldine V. Oades-Sese, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and the Associate Director of the Institute for the Study of Child Development, Rutgers RWJ Medical School. She is also the Director of the Research Lab for Resilience and Early Childhood Development. Her research includes Project Resilience, a 3-year longitudinal study, which examines the social-emotional and academic resilience of at-risk Hispanic American preschool children. She is also the Principal Investigator for the Sesame Street Resilience Project that examines resilience of separated/divorced families, resilience of families with an incarcerated parent, and a school-based resilience intervention for young civilian and military-related children.