President’s Message

Dear SSEA colleagues and friends,

Our professional society, like ourselves, is growing and transforming to adapt to the ever-changing and complex times in which we find ourselves. As we continue to grow our organization, I’m delighted that this past June we were able to return for the first time since before the COVID-19 pandemic to offering off-year regional meetings. Our colleagues, Dr. Anna Wieradzka-Pilarczyk and Lucyna Bakiera and their respective committee members, organized an informative meeting complete with amazing hospitality.

Our fervent commitment to scholarly work on emerging adults remains, and yet the need to take such scholarship and apply it in a variety of settings seems abundantly clear. Our society also has launched a new partnership with renown American Psychological Association to launch our second journal, Applied Studies in Emerging Adulthood. Thanks to Dr. Abby Goldstein for her work as editor in chief of this journal. Moreover, our upcoming biennial Conference on Emerging Adulthood in Montreal, Canada, builds upon this commitment to application with its theme, Grounded in Research, Guided by Practice: Advancing Understanding of Emerging Adulthood.

Many thanks to Drs. Shannon Claxton and Ohad Nahum and their committee for their work in preparing what is shaping up to be a phenomenal conference. Thus, together we forge ahead not only in our research on emerging adulthood but also on how best to apply this research to support emerging adults thriving. We strive to have SSEA be a place where we come together with our shared commitment to understanding and supporting emerging adults.

With gratitude,

Carolyn Barry

President, Society for the Study of Emerging Adulthood (SSEA)