Dr. Howard Stevenson is the Constance Clayton Professor of Urban Education, Professor of Africana Studies, in the Human Development & Quantitative Methods Division of the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the Executive Director of the Resilience Empowerment Collaborative. 

Dr. Stevenson develops racial socialization-based culturally responsive therapeutic interventions and research to resolve face-to-face racial conflicts and build racial literacy skills for leaders within independent and public K–12 schooling, community mental health centers, teachers, police,  parents, and youth. His publications of measures and interventions reflect the daily racially lived experiences of families and youth. His work has been funded by the W.T. Grant Foundation, Annenberg Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the National Institutes of Mental Health and Child Health and Human Development.