About

I am an Assistant Professor in the School Psychology program at the University of California, Riverside's (UCR) School of Education.  I received my Ph.D. in Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2018 and completed my pre-doctoral psychology internship with the National Center for School Mental Health at the University of Maryland Baltimore. I joined UCR in 2020 after completing a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in mental health services and systems and implementation science in the Department of Mental Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. I am a licensed psychologist with the California Board of Psychology (#32755), a Nationally Certified School Psychologist (#52889), and a pupil personnel services credentialed school psychologist in California. 

Research

My research works to identify and evaluate innovative and actionable strategies for supporting student mental health and promoting mental health equity. I pursue this goal through research that centers on:

🔹Improving universal mental health screening measures and processes

🔹Investigating contextual risk and protective factors that affect well-being and inform service provision

🔹Applying implementation science frameworks and methods to investigate factors affecting implementation and to develop implementation strategies that can advance school mental health practice.

You can learn more about this work on my research projects page.