Community Psychology Graduate Students

BA in Psychology with a minor in Criminal Justice, Saint Xavier University

MA in Community Psychology, DePaul University

Research Interests: Underrepresented and immigrant students’ experiences in higher education, mentoring relationships for ethnic-racial minority youth, and ethnic-racial identity.

Faculty Advisors: Bernadette Sá​nchez, PhD; Susan D. McMahon, PhD

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

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

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

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

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 R. Greeson, PhD​