Linda Young-DeMarco is a Lead Research Area Specialist with extensive longitudinal research and project management experience. Her expertise includes project conceptualization, construct and measurement development, survey questionnaire design, interviewer training, supervision of data management activities, and survey data analysis. She has collaborated with Arland Thornton and other researchers to study developmental idealism at the international level and is co-author of a number of peer-reviewed research papers and book chapters. More recently, Young-DeMarco has shifted her focus to studying the influence of Euro-American society and educational institutions on American Indian literacy and school attainment from 1900-1940 and across birth cohorts from 1830-1920.