Kyjeila Latimer, Ph.D.
Kyjeila earned her doctorate in Behavioral Science at the University of North Texas. Her research focuses on studying phentoypical features that impact the experiences of Black people beyond skin tone. Her overarching research interests include scale development, racial trauma, intersectionality, and Black student mental health.
Alexis Jones
Alexis Jones is currently a Counseling Psychology doctoral student at Auburn University. Alexis is interested in ways that culture and racial identity work together to influence resilience, quality of life (e.g. physical and mental health), and success (educational outcomes) of African Americans across the developmental span. She is also interested in the development of prevention and intervention strategies that positively impact the physical health, mental health, and well-being of young adults. Her clinical interests include working with minority groups and faith based groups.
Stephanie Joseph
Stephanie Joseph is currently a 2nd year Doctoral Student in School Psychology at Temple University. Ms. Joseph's research centers on improving and increasing the access to and utilization of mental health resources in underserved and underrepresented communities. Ms. Joseph's dual interests include examining racial and gender identity development in Black women and girls, as well as developing culturally sensitive assessments and interventions for marginalized and underrepresented communities.
Nekya Garrett
Nekya Garrett is a recent graduate of Teachers College, Columbia University with a Masters degree in Clinical psychology. She attended Clark Atlanta University in Atlanta, GA and received a B.A. in Psychology in 2015. Her current research interest includes exploring the relationship between the strong Black woman schema and mental health outcomes in Black women and examining the intersectionality between racial and gender identity as it relates to mental health outcomes in African American women and children. Currently, Nekya is investigating the mediating role of perceived social support, the strong Black woman schema, and depression in Black college women. She is particularly interested in Black women's help seeking behaviors to psychological services, preferred coping mechanisms, and reducing stigma surrounding psychological disorders and decreasing cultural mistrust in the African American communities. Nekya also has clinical interests in psychological assessments and creating and utilizing culturally competent treatment and therapeutic techniques.Her future goals are to be in a private practice setting, conducting research benefiting ethnic minorities, and being a part of the academia. In her free time, she enjoys cooking, traveling, and writing poetry.
Ivy Harris
Ivy Harris is currently a Quantitative Researcher in the Human Resources Function at Gartner. Iv's research uses mixed-methods to the study of Black women's identity and experiences in the workplace. As a former Master's student at Columbia University, Ivy studied cultural mistrust and mental health stigma among Black church members.
Undergraduate Lab Alumni
Alexandria Downing
Autumn Underwood
Aylin Peña-Serna
Kathryn Connor
Lataya Lattany
Aaliyah McNaughton