Noelle Suntheimer, PhD was an Institute of Education Sciences (IES) Predoctoral Fellow and PhD Student in Human Development at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education. She holds a B.S. in Psychology from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and an M.S.Ed. in Human Development from the University of Pennsylvania.

As a doctoral student and research professional, she applied quantitative methodologies and developmental science to answer policy-relevant research questions in support of disadvantaged families.

Noelle was affiliated with the RIPPLE Lab and Quality Preschool for Ghana (QP4G) project; here, she studied the underlying processes by which adversity may disrupt children’s development and protective mechanisms that mitigate the negative consequences of adversity in peri-urban Ghana.

She is also interested in how poverty-related risks are operationalized and applied in research and practice across different settings.