Dr. Hoover-Kinsinger joined the Augustana faculty in the fall of 2016. Prior to this she was an Assistant Professor of psychology at Northwestern College in Orange City, Iowa. She began her career as a child and adolescent art therapist in inpatient psychiatric facilities and outpatient rehabilitation centers. She also worked extensively with at-risk students and their families through district-based, grant-funded prevention programs. Her research involves the identification of factors that predict academic hopefulness and empirically-based faith development pedagogy with children.