Vision Podcast 99 - Dr. Laura Boltz, Dr. Arazais Oliveros, and Kristina Schoenthaler on the new child advocacy minor
From Vision Podcast by Mississippi State University College of Arts & Sciences, Karyn Brown, John Burrow
May 11, 2026 · 34 min · Episode 100
About this episode
This episode discusses the expansion of the university's child advocacy certificate into a more comprehensive minor with insights from the involved faculty and students.
In this episode, we’re joined by a team that has taken on the important challenge of expanding the university’s child advocacy certificate into a much more robust and interdisciplinary minor. The team consists of Dr. Laura Boltz, assistant professor in the Department of Sociology, who is the principal investigator on a Child Advocacy Studies Expansion grant, as well as Dr. Arazais Oliveros, associate professor in the Department of Psychology, and Kristina Schoenthaler, Ph.D. student in the Department of Psychology.