Scyatta Wallace

Biography

Scyatta A. Wallace is a developmental psychologist who studies how gender, race, and culture impact health outcomes of urban Black youth. In her community-based research and practice, Wallace emphasizes the importance of cultural competence and the need to diversify the workforce in health and mental health professions to better serve ethnic-minority communities. Wallace is an associate professor of psychology with tenure at St. John's University. Wallace received the American Psychological Association (APA) Carolyn Payton Early Career Award from the Society for the Psychology of Women (APA, Division 35) in 2012. This award was given in recognition of Wallace's co-authored paper titled Gold Diggers, Video Vixens, and Jezebels: Stereotype Images and Substance Use Among Urban African American Girl, which documented higher rates of substance use in African American adolescent girls who endorsed Western standards of beauty (e.g., a preference for lighter complexion and straightened hair) as compared to those who endorsed African American standards of beauty.

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