Elected as 2023-2025 member-at-large for the American Psychological Association of Graduate Students. The American Psychological Association of Graduate Students (APAGS) builds a better future for psychology by serving as a united voice to enrich and advocate for graduate student development. APAGS aspires to achieve the highest quality graduate training experience for the next generation of scientific innovators, expert practitioners and visionary leaders in psychology.

• Consultant for Steven Fund’s “Here’s the Thing!” Wellness circles for high school students. • Provide 1 hour of psychoeducation instruction and facilitation weekly at Cristo Rey High School in East Harlem to approximately 30 adolescent students.

I am currently or have historically served as a graduate teaching assistant for the following courses: Marriage and Family Systems and Therapy; Multicultural Psychopathology, Evaluation Research Methods, Foundations of Counseling Skills, Theories of Counseling (2x), Assessment in Counseling , Group Counseling, and Consultation for Community Organizations.

The Stigma, Identity, & Intersectionality research group focuses on the links of oppression and collective identity attitudes with mental health and career outcomes among sexual, gender, and racial/ethnic minority people. The lab is particularly interested in the experiences and well-being of populations with multiple stigmatized identities, such as racial and ethnic minority women and LGBTQ people of color.

Providing individual psychotherapy and psychological assessments for a range of psychological issues. Here, I service a diverse clientele with a variety of socioeconomic, gender, sexual, and racial-ethnic identities.

Elected to be the student co-representative for the Counseling Psychology Program at Teachers College. This role included arts ending bi-weekly faculty meetings, gathering and voicing student needs, organizing a department wide Town Hall, and producing a 17-page program evaluation. As student representative, I primarily focused on advocating for equitable student pay and resources, curriculum changes to reflect intersectional and liberatory frameworks, and increased positive student-faculty relations.

Health Policy Research Scholars is a national leadership development program supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. It supports scholars from diverse disciplines and backgrounds in applying and advocating for policy changes that improve health and equity.www.healthpolicyresearch-scholars.orgThe opinions expressed here are my own and do not represent the opinions of the program or the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Co-founder of the Black in Mental Health Collective, a virtual movement dedicated to highlighting Black mental health researchers, practitioners, and advocated worldwide.

The Cogburn Research Group tackles issues related to:- the characterization and measurement of racism- evaluating the effects of racism-related stressors on mental and physical health- exploring opportunities to reduce the effects of racism on health.We utilize multiple research methodologies including, laboratory-based experiments, epidemiological data, and “big data” analytics to examine questions related to these research themes.

-Rotations include Adult Inpatient Psychiatry and the Child and Family Advocacy Center housed in the Department of Pediatrics. -Receiving training in the identification, assessment, and treatment of children and adolescents and their families who have been sexually abused or physically abused and/or neglected.-Additional activities include inpatient milieu treatment, weekly team meetings, weekly didactic seminars, and weekly ground rounds

Delivering MCP (Meaning Centered Psychotherapy) to Chinese-speaking patients with advanced cancer that is culturally adapted for Chinese patients via an interpreter. MCP-Ch is a 6-session humanistic-existential intervention that uses psychoeducation and experiential exercises to assist patients with understanding how sources of meaning can be used for coping with cancer.

Psychology extern at Barnard College providing individual and group psychotherapy, psychiatric evaluation for medication, referrals for long-term therapy, biofeedback, and community engagement services and health education.Caseload: 9-12 individual clients. 1 Women of Color Process Group.

Summer Internship advancing equitable workplaces at one of the largest organizations for educational media and telecommunications. Specific initiatives include women's career advancement and gender equity, leadership development training, mental health parity, and other intersectional professional development aims.

The General Track (Hospital-based) RDTC Externship offers students the opportunity (1) to conduct forensic Psychosocial Evaluations of children suspected to have been physically and/or sexually abused and (2) to conduct individual therapy with children who have experienced abuse and maltreatment

Participated in the psycho-cultural immersion experience of Homecoming Gambia. This included living withhost villages, attending educational conferences, participating in cultural experiences such as drummingceremonies, visiting historical sites, and language lessons in Mandingo and Wolof.• Facilitated training workshops and discourse surrounding the development of formalized counseling at TheUniversity of The Gambia and SHEROES Women’s Center.

Bridging clinical research and health communications to implement equitable healthcare practices and engage Black and Brown communities in medical advancement.

Mentor to middle and high school students interested in innovation in media, psychology, and public health.

Public Health Analyst: RTI International Social Policy, Health and Economics Research; Center on Social Determinants, Risk Behaviors, and Prevention Science: Mental Health, Risk and Resilience Program. Research areas include: Mental health promotion, including in disadvantaged populations; school-based violence prevention; research on boys and men of color; community mental health; criminal and social justice research; research on the effects of trauma and exposure to violence; intervention development and implementation science; social and emotional learning; and violence prevention.Duties include project management; quantitative and qualitative data collection, analysis and reporting; contributing to proposal and grant writing; providing technical report and academic journal writing support; dissemination efforts; developing data collection instruments; monitoring data collection and quality; providing program and evaluation technical assistance; and developing, planning, and managing project operations and deliverables.

Freedom Summer is a project of the North Carolina Black Leadership and Organizing Collective & the Movement for Black Lives Network that strengthens local movement infrastructure, allows for shared experiments across the Movement for Black Lives network, deepens the bench of trained organizers & increase voter turnout. Fellows in this project start with an intense 3 days of virtual training where they deepen their organizing skills, build a shared identity, build their political understanding that includes an assessment of this moment, a grounding in M4BL values and a historical breakdown of the Black radical tradition. Freedom Summer Fellows will incorporate the intended goals by utilizing a series of direct action organizing tactics that include but are not limited to petitions, voter registration in and out of jails, political education, participatory defense, street teams, data management, narrative/ comms work, town halls, people's assemblies, canvassing, art interventions, Freedom Schools, Community centers and hubs, Free Breakfast Program for kids, Legal clinics, Campaign support, Coalition Support, etc.All fellows are required to complete the following:GOTV : Register 25 People to voteBasebuidling: Collect 25 Alignment Surveys and 25 pledge cardsTraining & Development: Attend 6/10 Training's weekly Communications: Complete 1 Communications Mini Project (ie. press release, infographic, zine etc.)

The Research to Policy Collaboration (RPC) is a model for bridging research and policy, emphasizing partnerships between research experts and legislative staff. Initiatives include qualitative coding for legislative briefs, policy analysis regarding COVID and racial health disparities, and using prevention science to advocate for geographical and racial/ethnic health equity. This work began with the recognition that direct interaction between researchers and policymakers were needed to support evidence-based policy.Duties Include o Facilitating legislative briefings on health equity policy o Interviewing and meeting with researchers, policymakers, and other stakeholders to bridge research and policy efforts relating to health and racial equity. o Creating the organization's Twitter and Social Media presence to enhance science communication o Optimizing research dissemination efforts by assessing under what conditions legislative staff are most likely to read emails about research evidence.o Exploring how policymakers leverage research evidence in written legislation so that we can draw from those examples in future collaborations seeking to advance the use of research in the written law.o Evaluating the impact of the RPC on legislative and research initiatives

Full-time social policy analyst and research coordinator for the Duke Initiative for Science & Society assisting with research and project implementation. Responsible for coordinating an NIH funded study on ethics and policy for the use of genetic information in migration, human trafficking, and missing persons.Responsibilities include:• Maintaining large record databases for the project, assisting in team coordination and providing assistance to undergraduates with work-study projects• Assisting with IRB protocol development of social science research, including conducting interviews and community forums. • Project management including collecting and organizing data, scheduling and coordinating interviews, and subject recruitment. • Participating in meetings with the PI and assisting with the coordination of undergraduate work-study projects• Successfully proposing, drafting and submitting abstracts to conferences including The American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS) and The American Society for Human Genetics (ASHG).• Communicating in both written reports and oral/visual presentations using exceptional attention to detail.• Presenting and communicating research through weekly meetings, newsletters, and presentations.

• Approved to complete an Honors Thesis through the UNC School of Medicine in conjunction with the UNC Center for Health Equity Research. • The project is titled “Surviving After Hurricane Matthew: The Impact of community and personal resources on Psychological Trauma and Resiliency following a Natural Disaster" and focuses on the evaluating the psychological wellness of African-American hurricane survivors in hopes to understand how social determinants of health influence mental health.

• Research assistant for Dr. Enrique Neblett's African-American Youth Wellness Lab. This lab focuses on understanding how racial, ethnic, and cultural factors influence risk and resilience which is a critical research priority for promoting the mental and physical health of African American youth.• Assisted graduate students and lab director on lab-related research. I have conducted focus groups with African-American students, literature reviews and searches, managed and created spreadsheets related to research projects, and helped publicize research studies through recruitment and dispersal of materials.

The Karen M. Gil Internship Program offers undergraduate Psychology and Neuroscience majors an opportunity to deepen their understanding of psychology and develop professional skills. The Gil Internship Program places students at a worksite in the Chapel Hill area, offers a monthly stipend, and a 3 hour course credit towards the Psychology major. o Selective internship program at the UNC Department of Psychology and Neuroscience. Consists of 140 hours of on-site work, weekly class meetings with the cohort, and a poster presentation at the end of the program. o Placed at AHB Center for Behavioral Health and Wellness, a private, Black-owned practice that focuses on delivering personalized psychotherapy to children and adults from diverse backgrounds.o conducted and scored numerous assessments, shadowed clinicians in various forms of psychotherapy including play-therapy, CBT, and mindfulness, and created a community resource database with over 70 organizations.

Practicum with the UNC Center for Health Equity Research under Dr. Laura Villa-Torres and Dr. Giselle Corbie-Smith. o Assisted with research efforts concerning the Surviving After Hurricane Matthew (SAHM) research study which focuses on the psychological, physiological, and practical effects of a natural disaster in rural, eastern North Carolinao Coded interviews for the Surviving After Hurricane Matthew (SAHM) Study. Gained experience in data entry, data coding, and data analysis. Duties included: Data collection via semi-structured interviews, transcribing interviews, coding and summarizing data, data entry via REDCap, statistical analysis, literature reviews and searches, and development of final paper and presentationo Traveled to Eastern, NC to collect data via interviews and surveys with Hurricane Matthew Survivors. Also learned community-based participatory research methods.

• Undergraduate research assistant supporting Dr. Liana Richardson's research social determinants of health in African-American individuals and communities. • Research mainly focused on factors influencing maternal health of African-American mothers including neighborhoods, mental health, life chances and opportunities, socioeconomic status, and availability of resources.• Duties included literature reviews and searches, research paper editing and updating, identifying and confirming sources, and creating an online presence for Dr. Richardson.• Contributed to two scholarly writings to be released in 2019

oSelected for Health Career Connection’s (HCC) Undergraduate Internship Program which matches underrepresented students interested in public health and health disparity research with hospitals, organizations, or health departments. HCC is a prestigious national health career development program.I Interned under the supervision of Dr. Kathy Colville, Director of Healthy Communities at Cone Health and completed the following:-Created a complete inventory of all programs offered in the community (Alamance, Guilford, Rockingham counties) currently being implemented to improve quality of life for citizens as a part of a community health assessment for Cone Health’s Healthy Communities Outreach Program. -Contributed to the effort to open a free health clinic/community health resource center in Rockingham County after the abrupt closing of the former.-Attended multiple meetings with prominent community health leaders throughout North Carolina-Presented a grant proposal and a report to the president of Cone Health.-Attended networking events, career planning and business-related workshops, and a conference on Cultural Humility, Behavioral Health, and Health Policy Life Career Planning in Washington, D.C sponsored by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC).

• Located documents and research articles pertaining to social geography in the United States. Assisted Dr. Rebecca Tippett in helping NC organizations understand and prepare for the impacts of population change. • Wrote articles relating to demographic trends in North Carolina related to homelessness & poverty, health, politics, and government.• Assisted with multiple demographic related research projects including maintaining a database of potential clients and compiling demographic trends for strategic planning• Designed and developed the Carolina Demography Website in accordance to UNC-Chapel hill guidelines• Filtered emails, answered phone calls, and performed other clerical duties in the Carolina Population Center.

Research assistant at Developmental Psychology Youth Identity Lab• Worked under Distinguished Term Professor and Psychology Director ofUndergraduate Studies, Dr. Beth Kurtz-Costes studying the developmentof racial identity in United States youth.• Duties included literature reviews, data analysis and entry using SPSSand Strata, weekly lab meetings and literature discussions, source entries,and professional development

Dance Project is an organization in Greensboro, North Carolina that serves to cultivate the field of modern dance in the surrounding area. As an intern, I helped with various tasks pertaining to the school of dance mainly dealing with social media and marketing. • Assist Dance Project administrators with implementing overall marketing and social media strategy and maintaining an active online presence across Dance Project’s social media platforms.• Created various weekly social media pushes for Dance Project and developed a daily schedule for posts using Hootsuite. • Performed detail-oriented, creative, and computer-savvy tasks using a variety of social media platforms. • Marketed the NC Dance Festival using flyers, social media platforms, and networking within the surrounding community. • Gained experience in videography, photo-editing, and basic graphic design.