Community Student Bios
Wendy de los Reyes
B.S.Ed. in Human and Social Development, Psychology, University of Miami
M.S.Ed. in Community and Social Change, University of Miami
Research Interests: Acculturation and adaptation of immigrants and refugees, Latinx populations, mentoring and social support.
Faculty Advisors: Bernadette Sánchez, PhD, Anne Saw, PhD
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Kayleigh Zinter
BS in Psychology with a minor in History, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Research Interests: College homelessness, resilience and coping in individuals facing adversity and/or who have experienced trauma, social justice.
Faculty Advisor: Susan D. McMahon, PhD
Yesenia Garcia Murillo
BA in Psychology with a minor in Criminal Justice, Saint Xavier University
Research Interests: Attainment of higher education in Latinx immigrant minorities and school-based interventions aimed at systematic barriers for minority youth.
Faculty Advisors: Bernadette Sánchez, PhD & Susan McMahon, PhD
Ted Bobak
BA in Psychology, Governors State University
Research Interests: Substance use disorder prevention, treatment, and recovery.
Faculty Advisor: Leonard A. Jason, PhD
Rebecca McGarity-Palmer
BA in Psychology, Houghton College
Research Interests: Gender and race equity particularly in health and education, intersectional feminism, program evaluation, and systems change.
Faculty Advisor: Anne Saw, PhD
Lidia Monjaras-Gaytan
BA in Psychology at San Diego State University
Research Interests: Mentoring, educational experiences of ethnic minority and first-generation students, educational attainment, higher education, college adjustment, resilience, college transition, and critical consciousness.
Faculty Advisor: Bernadette Sánchez, PhD
Annie Wegrzyn
BA in Psychology, North Central College
Research Interests: Community-based responses to violence against women, vicarious trauma, housing interventions and homelessness prevention, trauma-informed care.
Faculty Advisor: Megan Greeson, PhD
Kendall Crum
B.S. in Psychology with Community Concentration, Georgia State University
M.S. in Professional Counseling, Georgia State University
M.A. in Community Psychology, DePaul University
Research Interests: Evaluation, community-based participatory research, homelessness.
Faculty Advisor: Joe Ferrari, PhD
Jeremy Jagers
BA in Interdisciplinary Studies in Health and Society at Michigan State University
Research Interests: Institutional trust, cultural mistrust, suicide prevention, peer victimization and bullying, racial discrimination in education.
Faculty Advisor: Christine
Reyna, PhD
Shaun Bhatia
MS in Epidemiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
BS in Statistics/Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Research Interests: Environmental criminology/psychology, disparities in education, statistics and data science, geospatial reasoning.
Faculty Advisor: Leonard A. Jason, PhD
Helena Swanson
BA in Psychological Science with a minor in Gerontology, Central Connecticut State University
Research Interests: Aging, ageism, community services for older adults, life-span development, and food & housing insecurity.
Faculty Advisor: Joseph Ferrari, PhD
Safa Asad
BA in Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago
Research Interests: Education reform, disparities in access to education/educational opportunities, enhancing educational systems, mentoring, school-based interventions, educational experiences of ethnic minorities and refugees.
Faculty Advisor: Susan D. McMahon, PhD, Luciano Berardi, PhD
Andrew Camilleri
LLB with a minor in Philosophy, University of Malta, Malta
LLD, University of Malta, Malta
MS, Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University, Fairfax Virginia
Research Interests: migration, sustainable cities, youth, youth groups, political psychology, evaluation.
Faculty Advisor: Dn. Joseph Ferrari, PhD
Justin Bell
BA in Psychology, Knox College
MS in Experimental Psychology, Rochester Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Substance use disorder recovery, positive psychology, sober living communities, and 12 step groups.
Faculty Advisor: Leonard A. Jason, PhD