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Wilf, S. & Mishra, K. (Accepted). “We aren't even allowed to dream of a future in politics": Gender Disparities in Indian Youth Political Interest, Engagement, and Aspirations. Gender and Development.

Reed, T. A., Warri, V., Wilf, S., & Wray‐Lake, L. (Accepted). ““I made this trauma my entire personality”: How Negative Experiences in Gun Violence Prevention Impact the Organizing, Well-Being, and Healing of Black and Latine Youth". Social Problems.

Wilf, S., Philip, K., Knittig, L., Chiddick, L., La Pointe, R., Rossi, R., Kathan, S., & Copeland, V. (Under review). “The police only served to traumatize me further”: How University Survivors of Sexual Violence Navigate Resources through the Survivors’ Calculus.

Reed, T. A., Wilf, S., Millet, V., & Wray‐Lake, L. (2025). “It's a mass shooting in the hood everyday”: Black and Latine youth organizers' reflections on structural racism and community gun violence. American Journal of Community Psychology.

Malorni, A., & Wilf, S. (2025). Unpacking social media's role in sociopolitical development amidst the dual pandemics: Perspectives of marginalized adolescent organizers. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 35(3), e70048.

Wilf, S. (2024). What Sustains Youth Activism? A Short-Term Longitudinal Analysis of Factors Shaping Indian Young Adults’ Climate Activism. Doctoral Dissertation. UCLA.

Wilf, S., Rudra, A., & Wray-Lake, L. (2024). “I will still fight for it ‘till the end:” Factors Supporting and Detracting From Indian Youths’ Climate Activism. Youth.

Maker Castro, E., Wilf, S. Guzman, J. G., & Wray-Lake, L. (2024). ‘There’s always opportunities to learn’: Immigrant-origin youth’s use and understanding of social media for civic education in the year 2020. Education, Citizenship and Social Justice.

Quiles, T., Maker Castro, E., Wilf, S., Rudra, A., Bryant, L., Mathews, C., Wray-Lake, L. (2024). ‘Imagine growing up thinking the US is the best opportunity’: A qualitative exploration of immigrant origin youths’ digital action in support of the Black Lives Matter Movement on Twitter. Journal of Adolescent Research.

Lai, J., Kathan, S., Wilf, S., & Liévano-Karim, L. (2024). Exploring student perceptions of campus resources: A quantitative study on knowledge and trust in Title IX and on-campus sexual violence resources. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education.

Kathan, S., Lai, J., Liévano-Karim, L., Wilf, S., & Imbroane, M. (2024). Student Knowledge of University Confidential Resources for Survivors of Sexual Violence. Violence Against Women.

Wray-Lake, L., Wilf, S., & Bonilla, M. (2024). “Launching and Turning Points for Black Youth’s Civic Engagement.” In Young Black Changemakers and the Road to Racial Justice. Cambridge University Press.

Wray-Lake, L., Wilf, S., Bonilla, M., & Maker Castro, E. (2024). “Organizations as Key Contexts for Young Black Changemaking.” In Young Black Changemakers and the Road to Racial Justice. Cambridge University Press.

Wilf, S., Reed, T., Millet, V., Ortiz, S., & Wray-Lake, L. (2023). “We been dying, and you got me on a call helping you stay alive”: Black and Latinx Youth Organizers’ Experiences of Racism in Gun Violence Prevention Organizations. Journal of Research on Adolescence. http://doi.org/10.1111/jora.12889. 

Wilf, S., Wray-Lake, L., & Saavedra, J. A. (2023). Youth Civic Development amid the Pandemic. Current Opinion in Psychology. www.doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2023.101627

Wilf, S. & Wray-Lake, L. (2023). Development and Validation of the Online Sociopolitical Action Scale (SASSM). Adolescent Research Review. http://www.doi.org/10.1007/s40894-023-00208-w

Wilf, S., Maker Castro, E., Garzón Gupta, K., & Wray-Lake, L. (2022). Shifting Culture and Minds: Immigrant-Origin Youth Building Critical Consciousness on Social Media. Youth & Society. www.doi.org/10.1177/0044118X221103890.

Wilf, S. & Wray-Lake, L. (2021). “That’s How Revolutions Happen”: Psychopolitical Resistance in Online Youth Civic Engagement. Journal of Adolescent Research, 1-34. www.doi.org/10.1177/07435584211062121.

Wray-Lake, L., Wilf, S., Kwan, J. Y., & Oosterhoff, B. (2021). Adolescence during a pandemic: examining US adolescents’ time use and family and peer relationships during COVID-19. Youth, 2(1), 80-97. www.doi.org/10.3390/youth2010007.

Wray‐Lake, L., Gniewosz, B., Benavides, C., & Wilf, S. (2021). Youth Civic Engagement: Exploring Micro and Macro Social Processes. In A. Kostic. & D. Chadee (Eds.), Positive Psychology: An International Perspective (pp. 152-176). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.

Wray-Lake, L., Wilf, S., & Oosterhoff, B. (2020). Reconsidering the Voting Age in Los Angeles and California. California Policy Options 2020. www.osf.io/pmrk4/?view_only=f60808b8e03141d1a3d343008defdbac.