Aging Out of the Foster System: Youths’ Perspectives

Aging Out of the Foster System: Youth’s Perspectives provides a crucial and important narrative of the lived experiences of young people leaving foster care.

Miranda Mosier-Puentes is Assistant Professor of Child, Youth, and Family Studies in the School of Social Work at Portland State University. Her research is interdisciplinary, drawing from education, social work, and gender studies, and her publications focus on youth aging out of the foster system, social class and educational access, and the relational experiences of first-generation college students.

Marcelo Diversi is Professor of Human Development at Washington State University Vancouver. He is the co-author, with Claudio Moreira, of Betweener Autoethnographies: A Path Towards Social Justice (2018), which was awarded the 2019 Best Book Award from the Ethnography Division of the National Communications Association. He has authored dozens of articles in leading qualitative inquiry journals focusing on issues of marginalization, oppression, exclusion, social justice, decolonialization, and critical inquiry.