Jean E. Rhodes MENTOR/National Mentoring Partnership Professor Department of Psychology University of Massachusetts Boston 100 Morrissey Blvd. Boston, MA 02125 (617)-287-6368 Jean.Rhodes@umb.edu

Professor Rhodes completed her Ph.D. in clinical/community psychology at DePaul University and her clinical internship at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. She is a Fellow in the American Psychological Association and the Society for Research and Community Action, and a Distinguished Fellow of the William T. Grant Foundation. Rhodes is also a member of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Transitions to Adulthood and Chair of the Research and Policy Council of the National Mentoring Partnership. She sits on the Board of Directors of the National Mentoring Partnership and the Forum for Youth Investment on the Advisory Boards of many mentoring and policy organizations, and serves on the editorial boards of several journals in community and adolescent psychology. Her book, Stand by me: The risks and rewards of mentoring today's youth (Harvard University Press) was recently issued in paperback.