Dr. Li received her master’s in economics at Southwest University in P.R. China and joined the faculty at Southwest University upon graduation in 1989. She was an associate professor at Southwest University before she entered the doctoral program at School of Social Work, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Li was a member of the Royster Society of Fellows. Her research focuses on prevention of antisocial and aggressive behavior in childhood and adolescence, program evaluation, and quantitative data analysis.