Community Psychology Graduate Students

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: Immigrant-origin youth, mentoring, sociopolitical development, and refugee resettlement.

Faculty Advisors: Bernadette Sánchez, PhD; Anne Saw, PhD

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BS in Psychology with a minor in History, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

MA in Community Psychology, DePaul University

Research Interests: Improving systemic response to populations that have experienced significant or prolonged trauma and program evaluation.

Faculty Advisor: Megan R. Greeson, PhD; Susan D. McMahon, PhD

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 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 

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 R. Greeson, PhD​

MA in Community Psychology, DePaul University

MS in Epidemiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

BS in Statistics/Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Research Interests: Environmental criminology, disparities in education, statistics and research methods, spatial econometrics. 

Faculty Advisor: Leonard A. Jason, PhD

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 ​

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 Psychology, University of Southern California

MA in Education, University of Massachusetts Global

Research Interests: youth mental health, social support, violence prevention, interventions, universal screening tools, Long-COVID, ME/CFS, and mentoring.

Faculty Advisors: LaVome Robinson, PhD, Leonard Jason, 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