Erin Hiley Sharp is a Carsey School faculty fellow and associate professor of family studies at the University of New Hampshire. Her research interests include activity involvement as a context for adolescent development; parental, family, and broader contextual influences on adolescent development; and prevention research and theory from a positive youth development perspective. At the Carsey School, Erin’s work focuses on investigating factors that contribute to the positive development of vulnerable youth. Much of this work involves analysis of data from the Youth Panel Study of Coos County.