Katrina Rbeiz is a Lebanese-American PhD student at Vanderbilt University who is broadly interested in identifying risk (e.g., trauma) and resilience (e.g., ethnic identity) factors for ethnically diverse populations with schizophrenia spectrum disorders, particularly for Middle Eastern and North African populations. She is particularly focused on addressing disparities in the measurement and diagnosis of schizophrenia spectrum disorders, and hopes to use a multimethod approach to treat the attenuated symptoms of psychosis through developing culturally valid assessments and interventions.

Shirley Wang is a PhD candidate in clinical psychology with a secondary in computational science and engineering at Harvard University. She has been funded by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship and the National Institutes of Health F31/NRSA Predoctoral Fellowship. Shirley conducts computational clinical science research to advance our understanding of why people engage in behaviors that are harmful to themselves, including eating disorder behaviors, nonsuicidal self-injury, and suicide. She is particularly interested in mathematical modeling of these phenomena as dynamic systems. Starting in July 2023, Shirley will join the Center for Precision Psychiatry and the Center for Digital Mental Health at Massachusetts General Hospital as a Predoctoral Intern. Starting in July 2024, Shirley will join the Department of Psychology at Yale University as an Assistant Professor.

Sara Mei is currently a second-year graduate student at Colorado State University in the Counseling Psychology PhD program and is mentored by the amazing Dr. Noah Emery. She received her Bachelor of Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and continued her training as a post-baccalaureate clinical research coordinator at McLean Hospital. She is primarily interested in using novel technologies to identify within- and between-person variability within cognitive, affective, behavioral, and psychophysiological mechanisms underlying substance use in order to develop individualized addiction treatment for a wide range of populations.

Kaela Farrise (she/her) is a doctoral student with an emphasis in Clinical Psychology under the supervision of Dr. Miya Barnett. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Stanford University in African and African American Studies, and in Urban Studies. She also has a master’s degree in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University and is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in the state of California. During her masters she specialized in psychological trauma and applied community psychology. She has worked in a number of clinical settings including a domestic violence shelter in South LA, a major hospital system in the Bay Area and most recently in her own private practice. Prior to joining UCSB, she was the Lab Manager in the Early Life Stress and Resilience Program at Stanford University School of Medicine and a research assistant in the Stress, Trauma and Resilience Lab at San Francisco State. Her research interests include the implementation and dissemination of mental health services in under-resourced communities, understanding and mitigating the impacts of domestic violence and racial trauma on families of color, and culturally responsive adaptations of psychological interventions.

Gio Ramos is a recent graduate from the University of California, Los Angelos and a current University of Califorina, Irvine Chancellor's and Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, researching strategies to improve the contextual and cultural fit of evidence-based treatments for marginalized communities, with an emphasis on Latinx populations. His research program also includes the use of digital mental health interventions to make mental health care more widely available in disenfranchised communities. Born and raised in Mexico, he considers himself a "non-traditional" student, given his immigrant experience, first-generation college student identity, English as a second language status, and socioeconomic background. These unique identities and experiences fuel his passion for mentoring underrepresented minorities in higher education and advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in academia.

Elliott R. Weinstein, MPH, M.S. (he/him) is a 5th year doctoral student in clinical-health psychology at the University of Miami working alongside Drs. Steven Safren and Audrey Harkness. His research focuses on health equity as it relates to HIV, sexual, and mental health outcomes among older adults, sexual and gender minorities, and other marginalized groups. He is currently the PI on a NIDA funded R36 dissertation study examining how novel aging-focused syndemic conditions may explain HIV risk and lower quality of life among older sexual minority men living in Florida. Clinically, Elliott has experience with working with cancer survivors, people living with HIV across the life spectrum, men who have sex with men who use stimulants, aging veterans, and people living with ADHD and comorbid anxiety issues.