
A native of New York, Professor Trickett grew up in Washington, D.C. She earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania and went on to complete a Ph.D. from the New School in New York City.
Dr. Trickett began her career as a researcher in the psychology faculty at Yale University before becoming a senior fellow at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. She joined the faculty at the University of Southern California School of Social Work in 1989.


