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About the Institute:
People
Kristen Fay
Eliot Pearson Department of Child Development
Institute for Applied Research in Youth Development
The Lincoln Filene Center, Third Floor
Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155
Phone: (617) 627-5558
Email: kristen.fay@tufts.edu
Kristen Fay is a doctoral research assistant on the 4-H Study of
Positive Youth Development in the Institute for Applied Research in Youth Development.
In 2002, Kristen received her B.A. in Psychology from Wellesley College, and her M.A.
in Child Development from Tufts University in 2008. Kristen was recently awarded the
Horton-Hallowell Fellowship for graduate study (2009-2010). Her other achievements include
recognition as a 2006 AED/NIMH Early Career Investigator in the field of eating disorders
field and, in 2005-2006, as a Kirschenbaum-Cohn fellow. In addition, she is also a research
assistant to Dr. Anne Becker at the MGH Eating Disorders Clinical and Research Program and
part-time faculty at Boston College where she has taught classes related to adolescent
development. Kristen is primarily interested in the role of individual
(e.g., actual and perceived weight) and contextual (e.g., activity settings such as sports
participation) factors that moderate adolescents’ eating and weight outcomes.
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