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Belle Liang’s research explores positive youth development, including mentoring and relational health in adolescence and young adulthood. In particular, her work involves the development of youth purpose interventions, including those that are technologically mediated. She led the development of a web-based application, “True North,” that helps students explore significant questions in their lives and that BC programs and courses incorporate into their curricula. Her expertise extends to college access, gender, social oppression, whole person education, and student motivation.

Since Liang joined the Lynch School in 2000, she has focused on growth-fostering mentor relationships among youth from diverse backgrounds and transforming systems and contexts so that they support the cultivation of purpose in young people with diverse backgrounds and values. She is a licensed psychologist and an advisory board member for a number of organizations that serve youth.

Recognized as an American Psychological Association (APA) Fellow, Division 17, for outstanding contributions to the field of counseling psychology, Liang is a member of the APA, the Society for Research on Child Development, and the Society for Research on Adolescence, and the recipient of a number of teaching and mentoring awards.