https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2543-9955
I am trained as a cross-cultural and clinical psychologist 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 and the Harvey Lodish Faculty Development Chair in the Natural Sciences. I have also received the APA Henry David International Teaching Mentoring Award and this coming year will serve as president-elect of Division 48, Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict and Violence.
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 and the Harvey Lodish Faculty Development Chair in the Natural Sciences. I have also received the APA Henry David International Teaching Mentoring Award and this coming year will serve as president-elect of Division 48, Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict and Violence.
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