Current Graduate Students
Stayce Camparo
Education: MA in Psychology, University of Chicago; MS in Sociology and Social Research, University of Cologne; BA in Psychology, Harvard University
Research Interests: Parenting and the ways families and communities shape one another. She is particularly interested in how parenting beliefs, values, and expectations develop within social and cultural contexts and how these norms intersect with socioeconomic inequality, education, and child and family well-being.
Faculty Advisors: Ansuk Jeong, PhD and Susan McMahon, PhD
Christina Carr
Education: BA in Psychology, Elon University
Research Interests: STEM opportunities for youth of color; health and food systems; community-led interventions for food sovereignty; community violence interventions; system justification influences on social movements and policy support; participatory program evaluation methodology; film and photography as data collection methods
Faculty Advisor: Christine Reyna, PhD
Zachary Henry Ellis
Education: BA in Psychology with a minor in General Business, University of Alabama; MA in Community Psychology, DePaul University
Research Interests: Improving access to rural healthcare, improving mobile healthcare clinic practices, impacts of decluttering during the pandemic, student development program for college student athletes, alternative mental health crisis support programming
Faculty Advisor: Dn. Joseph Ferrari, PhD
Hieu Nguyen
Education: BS in Psychology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Research Interests: Health equity interventions for the LGBTQIA+ community, empowerment of marginalized communities, and quality care for patients with chronic illnesses.
Faculty Advisor: Anne Saw, PhD
Quang Anh (Aaron) Nguyen
Education: BA in Psychology, Luther College
Research Interests: community based participatory research, substance use, nicotine consumption and cessation, empowerment of marginalized communities
Faculty Advisor: Ansuk Jeong, PhD
Hannah Samuels
Education: BA in Gender Studies, Psychology, Indiana University
Research Interests: Gender-based violence, community-based responses to sexual violence, experiences of LGBTQ+ survivors
Faculty Advisor: Megan Greeson, PhD
Taylor Swenski
Education: BS in Psychology, Ohio State University
Research Interests: Health equity interventions for Black and Latinx adolescents, community-based participatory research methodologies, environmental justice, food sovereignty, youth development and critical consciousness building.
Faculty Advisor: Jocelyn Carter, PhD
Shizuka Yanagii
Education: BA in Sociology, International Christian University; MA in Social and Cultural Analysis, International Christian University
Research Interests: Violence against educators and teacher well-being, social-emotional learning and teacher social-emotional training, qualitative field research in school communities, international community psychology
Faculty Advisor: Susan McMahon, PhD
Miguel Angel Vazquez III
Education: BA in Psychology, minor in Sociology, DePaul University
Research Interests: STEM education; community-based participator research methodologies; program evaluation
Faculty Advisor: Christine Reyna, PhD