Emily is a second-year doctoral student in Counseling Psychology at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Emily’s research explores racial stress, resilience, and healing among Asian American and other racially minoritized communities. Broadly, she is interested in how people make meaning of racism-related stress, draw on cultural and collective strengths, and pursue well-being, dignity, and liberation. Her work aims to reduce mental health disparities by informing culturally grounded, strengths-based approaches to care and support. Clinically, Emily is interested in culturally responsive, trauma-informed, and liberation-oriented practice. She attends to how identity, culture, community, and systemic context shape healing, and she seeks approaches that are affirming, accessible, and rooted in clients’ lived experiences rather than adapted from dominant models. Most recently, she served as the lab manager for the Early Life Stress and Resilience Program at Stanford School of Medicine. A fun fact about Emily is that she is a dancer and has been trained in jazz, tap, hip-hop, and ballet since the age of 8. 

Rohan is a fifth-year doctoral student at Wheelock. His current research interests focus on Asian American liberation, specifically looking at resistance to racism and the model minority myth and factors that contribute to interracial solidarity. He is also interested in studying social justice education. His clinical interests include working with Asian American young adults with a focus on racial identity concerns. Rohan primarily works from relational-cultural therapy and liberation psychology frameworks, and is currently completing his practicum training at Tufts Medical Center Outpatient Psychiatry. He previously worked as a teaching assistant at Johns Hopkins University School of Education and lab manager for the SPiEE lab, as well as a graduate assistant for the Office of Diversity and Faculty Development. He is currently a student board member for the Asian American Psychology Association (AAPA) and previously held leadership roles as the membership chair for the Division on South Asian Americans (DoSAA), doctoral student representative and union representative for BU Wheelock, and campus representative co-chair for APA Division 45 student committee. One fun fact about him is that due to multiple eye surgeries as an infant, he can’t roll or cross his eyes.

Jasmine is a fifth-year doctoral student at Wheelock whose research uses intersectional theory to explore how female graduate students of color navigate higher education, with a focus on social justice, multicultural teaching, and clinical training. Clinically, she works from a relational-cultural lens, using acceptance-based principles to support patients at Massachusetts General Hospital. Before BU, she spent a decade teaching in higher education and led research on perfectionism and student mental health. Her clinical experience is rooted in using DBT to create a life worth living with youth in residential care, and providing long-term trauma treatment for adolescents. As a graduate of Harvard University, she examined the role of resilience in youth of color. A fun fact: she has completed eight marathons, including the Boston Marathon with Brigham and Women’s Hospital’s Stepping Strong team in honor of the Boston Marathon bombing victims.

Soe Young is a fifth-year doctoral student in the Applied Human Development program at Boston University. Her research focuses on the application of positive youth development, informed by frameworks of ethnic-racial identity development, critical consciousness, and social support. She aims to empower youth from minoritized populations and help them develop agency and a voice within their community. Soe Young's work is guided by her experiences teaching middle and high school students in Korea, as well as her involvement in several projects that analyzed and evaluated programs for children and adolescents in areas such as social-emotional development, mental health, and language learning. Apart from her work, she finds joy in coffee, puzzles, noodles, and the precious people in her life.

Lauren is a graduate of BU Wheelock's Master's of Education in Counseling program, concentrating in Sport Psychology (2022). She works as a part-time lecturer in the EdM Counseling program in addition to working full-time as a clinician in private practice specializing in treating trauma. She takes an eclectic and somatic-based clinical approach from ACT, CBT, DNMS Parts Work, Narrative Therapy, Feminist Therapy, and Liberation Psychology. She is also trained in EMDR. Lauren maintains a part-time role in the lab as the Community Outreach Coordinator. Lauren is passionate about decolonizing approaches in counseling and psychology, and aims to do so by helping the lab disseminate research findings beyond academia and into our communities. A fun fact about her is that she probably hasn't seen that movie someone is talking about!

Janet is a third-year doctoral student in the Counseling Psychology and Applied Human Development program at Wheelock College. Her research interests revolve around understanding the positive development of immigrant-origin Asian American youth, specifically exploring their ethnic-racial identity and civic engagement outcomes. Clinically, her experience of working with immigrant-origin youth of color as a case manager in New York City sparked her passion for facilitating marginalized populations in finding meaning and strength through their own lived experiences and identities. Through her training, she hopes to empower marginalized youth by drawing on their unique cultural assets through integrating research and clinical practice. Outside her work, she enjoys spending time with her cats, baking, and taking walks in nature!

Sabrina is a recent graduate of BU's Wheelock Education & Human Development with a minor in Public Health. She is currently attending the University of Michigan to obtain her Master of Social Work. Her research interests include social determinants of health, trauma-informed and culturally affirming care, and cross-group solidarity. Previously, she interned at Boston Community Pediatrics, where she co-facilitated an in-person parent skills group and an online parent support group, developed curriculum for a parent-toddler group, and led weekly wellness programming for patients. Currently, she interns at a day program and shelter serving women, trans, and nonbinary individuals, where she builds meaningful relationships and helps connect people to resources and services at the shelter and in the community. She hopes to become a clinical social worker and actively work to address inequities and injustice through my practice and beyond. One fun fact about Sabrina is that she has aphantasia and cannot visualize mental images in her mind!