Her research focuses on family and child-related issues that link China with the United States. More specifically, her current project examines Chinese “satellite babies,” or children who are born in the United States but sent to live with extended family in China during their formative years while their parents remain in the United States to work. In conjunction with the non-profit organization Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center, the CRISP award will be used to develop and implement a therapeutic program for Chinese immigrant mothers who have undergone this type of international separation from their child.