My primary research interest is in understanding the developmental pathways that lead to adverse outcomes among urban African Americans. By utilizing a life course perspective, my emphasis is on the tasks required for successful transition between the developmental stages from childhood to adulthood.

My current program of research has three primary areas:

(1) understanding the natural history of substance use among urban African Americans;

(2) elucidating the association of drug use and delinquent/criminal behavior over the life course; and

(3) investigating the consequences of substance use and crime on role functioning, health, and families.

An additional focus of all of my work is on understanding differences for men in women in these areas, and the prevention implications of my research.

Much of my research has utilized data from the Chicago-based Woodlawn Study, a prospective, longitudinal study of drug use and crime that has followed urban African Americans from age 6 to age 42. I have also been working extensively with the Prevention Intervention Research Center sample, a Baltimore-based intervention program that has followed individuals from first grade to adulthood.

Woodlawn Study, health disparities; gender differences, adolescent drug and alcohol use, substance use disorders, drugs and crime, urban health

1993-1995 Dean’s List, College of William and Mary

1994 Member, Psi Chi, National Honor Society in Psychology

1995 Graduated Cum Laude, College of William and Mary

1998 Member, Kappa Delta Pi, National Honor Society in Education

2000-2004 Department of Health Policy and Management Academic Scholarship

2001 Honors on Departmental Comprehensive Exam

2004 Member, Delta Omega, National Honor Society in Public Health

Editorial Activity

2005, 2006 Ad-Hoc Reviewer, Society for Prevention Research

2005-2006 Ad-Hoc Reviewer, Journal of Marriage and the Family

2006-present Editorial Board, Journal of Marriage and the Family

Crum, R.M., Green, K.M., Storr, C.L., Chan, Y.F., Ialongo, N., Stuart, E.A., & Anthony, J.C. (in press). Depressed mood and alcohol involvement: Assessing associations from childhood through young adulthood. Archives of General Psychiatry.

Crum, R. M., Juon, H.S., Green, K.M., Robertson, J., Fothergill, K., & Ensminger, M. (2006). Educational achievement and early school behavior as predictors of alcohol use disorders: 35-year follow-up of the Woodlawn Study. Journal of Alcohol Studies, 67, 75-85.

Doherty, E.E., Green, K.M., & Ensminger, M. (2008). Investigating the long-term influence of adolescent delinquency on drug use initiation. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 93, 72-84.

Doherty, E.E., Green, K.M. Reisinger, H.S. & Ensminger, M.E. (in press). Long-term patterns of drug use among an urban African American cohort: The influence of gender and family. Journal of Urban Health.

Ensminger, M.E., Juon, H.S., & Green, K.M. (2007). Consistency between adolescent reports and adult retrospective reports of adolescent marijuana use: explanations of inconsistent reporting among an African American population. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 89, 13-23.

Fothergill, K.E., Ensminger, M.E., Green, K. M., Crum, R.M., Robertson, J.A. Juon, H.S. (2008). The impact of early school behavior and educational achievement on adult drug use disorders: A prospective study. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 92, 191- 199.

Green, K. M., & Ensminger, M. E. (2006). Adult social behavioral effects of heavy adolescent marijuana use among African Americans. Developmental Psychology, 42, 1168-1178.

Green, K. M., Ensminger, M. E., Robertson, J. A., & Juon, H. S. (2006). Impact of adult sons’ incarceration on African American mothers’ psychological distress. Journal of Marriage and Family, 68, 430-441.

Killen, M., Pisacane, K. M., Lee, J., & Ardila-Rey, A. (2001). Fairness or stereotypes?: young children’s priorities when evaluating group inclusion and exclusion. Developmental Psychology, 37 (5), 587-596.

Slade, E. P., Stuart, E. A., Salkever, D. S., Karakus, M., Green, K. M., & Ialongo, N. (in press). Early adult incarceration as a consequence of substance use disorders in adolescence and early adulthood: A propensity score matching approach. Drug and Alcohol Dependence.

Stuart, E. & Green, K. M. (in press). Using Full Matching to Estimate Causal Effects in Non-Experimental Studies: Examining the Relationship between Adolescent Marijuana Use and Adult Outcomes. Developmental Psychology.