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 Latine Studies.
Born and raised in the Bronx, I am the first in my family to attend 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, I am especially interested in questions concerning colorism, within-group discrimination, and misidentification and how these experiences shape our lived experiences. As a cross-cultural and feminist psychologist, I am primarily interested in studying those who have traditionally been underrepresented and marginalized in the field of psychology; and as a liberation psychologist, I am committed to collective care and institutional change, which is why I have created a separate website dedicated to supporting faculty of color.
At Kenyon, I was one of the co-founders of our MLK day and the Latine Studies Concentration and have worked to expand global learning opportunities for our students, including directing the Kenyon in Rome program, the Kenyon-Copenhagen program, teaching with Semester At Sea, and serving as a Fulbright Scholar in Budapest, where I taught a course on immigration and cross-cultural psychology.
Thus far, I have been fortunate to receive several teaching and research awards for my work, including Kenyon's highly prized Kenyon Trustee Teaching Award and the Harvey Lodish Faculty Development Chair in the Natural Sciences, and the Henry David International Teaching Mentoring Award issued by Division 52 of the APA. I am also the co-editor of The Wiley Handbook of Collaborative Online Learning and Global Engagement, and I am currently working on an undergraduate textbook on Latine Psychology.
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 attend 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, I am especially interested in questions concerning colorism, within-group discrimination, and misidentification and how these experiences shape our lived experiences. As a cross-cultural and feminist psychologist, I am primarily interested in studying those who have traditionally been underrepresented and marginalized in the field of psychology; and as a liberation psychologist, I am committed to collective care and institutional change, which is why I have created a separate website dedicated to supporting faculty of color.
At Kenyon, I was one of the co-founders of our MLK day and the Latine Studies Concentration and have worked to expand global learning opportunities for our students, including directing the Kenyon in Rome program, the Kenyon-Copenhagen program, teaching with Semester At Sea, and serving as a Fulbright Scholar in Budapest, where I taught a course on immigration and cross-cultural psychology.
Thus far, I have been fortunate to receive several teaching and research awards for my work, including Kenyon's highly prized Kenyon Trustee Teaching Award and the Harvey Lodish Faculty Development Chair in the Natural Sciences, and the Henry David International Teaching Mentoring Award issued by Division 52 of the APA. I am also the co-editor of The Wiley Handbook of Collaborative Online Learning and Global Engagement, and I am currently working on an undergraduate textbook on Latine Psychology.
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
