https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2543-9955
I am a cross-cultural and clinical psychologist by training and work as a Professor at Kenyon College, which is a lovely rural college in the middle of Ohio. At Kenyon, I teach courses in Psychology, Women and Gender Studies, and Latino Studies.
Born and raised in the Bronx, I am the first in my family to ever to go to college or graduate school. These experiences have shaped me and explain my interests in gender, acculturation, socioeconomic status and cross-cultural psychopathology. Additionally, as a light-skinned Puerto Rican, issues related to skin color, ethnic and racial identity and racial misidentification have always interested me. As a cross-cultural and feminist psychologist, I am primarily interested in studying those have traditionally been underrepresented and marginalized in the field of psychology. As a liberation psychologist, I believe it is important to help and support others, and to this end have created another website specifically for faculty of color.
Thus far, I have been fortunate enough to receive a number of teaching and research awards for my work, such as Kenyon's highly prized Kenyon Trustee Teaching Award, the Harvey Lodish Faculty Development Chair in the Natural Sciences and most recently the APA Henry David International Teaching Mentoring Award, I taught abroad in the Semester at Sea program, where I visited and lectured in China, Japan, Viet Nam, India, Mauritius, South Africa, Ghana and Brazil, and was the Director of the Kenyon in Rome program. I also served as Kenyon's Global Campus Liaison and worked with my colleagues to help internationalize our curricula.
Most recently, I completed a Fulbright in Budapest, Hungary where I taught classes on the psychology of immigration and cross-cultural psychology to students in the Masters Program of Social Integration at Eötvös Loránd University.
I am an avid photographer and proud mama of two.
My Areas of Expertise:
Cross-cultural psychopathology (particularly trauma), women's issues in ethnic minority communities, acculturation and mental health, phenotype and skin color, psychology of immigration, disaster psychology
Born and raised in the Bronx, I am the first in my family to ever to go to college or graduate school. These experiences have shaped me and explain my interests in gender, acculturation, socioeconomic status and cross-cultural psychopathology. Additionally, as a light-skinned Puerto Rican, issues related to skin color, ethnic and racial identity and racial misidentification have always interested me. As a cross-cultural and feminist psychologist, I am primarily interested in studying those have traditionally been underrepresented and marginalized in the field of psychology. As a liberation psychologist, I believe it is important to help and support others, and to this end have created another website specifically for faculty of color.
Thus far, I have been fortunate enough to receive a number of teaching and research awards for my work, such as Kenyon's highly prized Kenyon Trustee Teaching Award, the Harvey Lodish Faculty Development Chair in the Natural Sciences and most recently the APA Henry David International Teaching Mentoring Award, I taught abroad in the Semester at Sea program, where I visited and lectured in China, Japan, Viet Nam, India, Mauritius, South Africa, Ghana and Brazil, and was the Director of the Kenyon in Rome program. I also served as Kenyon's Global Campus Liaison and worked with my colleagues to help internationalize our curricula.
Most recently, I completed a Fulbright in Budapest, Hungary where I taught classes on the psychology of immigration and cross-cultural psychology to students in the Masters Program of Social Integration at Eötvös Loránd University.
I am an avid photographer and proud mama of two.
My Areas of Expertise:
Cross-cultural psychopathology (particularly trauma), women's issues in ethnic minority communities, acculturation and mental health, phenotype and skin color, psychology of immigration, disaster psychology