Emily Velandia, B.A.

Emily Velandia is a first-year student in the Clinical Psychology doctoral program at The University of Memphis. She graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 2019 with Bachelor of Arts degrees in Psychology and English. Emily worked as a Staff Research Associate at the Child and Adolescent Services Research Center in San Diego, CA for 3 years. Her research interests revolve around how strengths can be transmitted across generations, particularly within families with young children who have experienced intergenerational trauma or adversity.

velandia@memphis.edu

Room 359, Psychology Building

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Velandia, E. A., Farr, A., Musso, S., Soto, N., & Fettes, D. (2024). Parents’ Adverse Childhood Experiences Matter Too: The Impact of Multigenerational Trauma on Participation in Early Childhood Education for Latinx Children. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 67, 208–217. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecresq.2023.12.007

Oral Presentations

Velandia, E., Musso, S., Soto, N. & Fettes, D (2023, January). Multi-System Collaboration: Practice-Based Evidence for Domestic Violence Exposed Children. Oral presentation given at the annual conference of the International Conference on Child and Family Maltreatment, San Diego, CA.
Fettes, D., Fudge, M., Willging, C., Velandia, E., Lagare, T., Farr, A. & Aarons, G. A. (2022, September). Community-Academic Partnership for Translational Use of Research Evidence in policy, program, and practice: A mixed-methods analysis. Oral presentation given at the annual conference of the Society of Implementation Research Collaboration, San Diego, CA.
Fettes, D., Farr, A., Velandia, E., & Sommerfeld, D. (2022, September). Methodologies to Support Bi-Directional Collaborations and Promote Engagement in Implementation Science. Oral presentation given at the annual conference of the Society of Implementation Research Collaboration, San Diego, CA.
Fettes, D., Aarons, G., Farr, A., Lagare, T., Velandia, E., & Willging, C. E. (2022, June). A Community-Academic Partnership for Equitable Implementation in Improving Use of Research Evidence in Child Welfare Policy and Practice: What Strategies are Enough? Oral presentation given at the annual conference of the Society for Prevention Research, Seattle, WA.

Poster Presentations

Willging, C. E., Fettes, D., Farr, A., Velandia, E., Lagare, T., & Aarons, G. A. (2022, December). System-Wide Shifts in Perceptions of Use of Research Evidence: Impacts of a Community-Academic Partnership for Improving URE in Child Welfare Program and Policy. Poster presented at the annual conference on the Science of Implementation and Dissemination, Washington, D.C.
Velandia, E. & Tran, A. (2022, October). Short-Term COVID-19 Changes: Trauma Impacts on Child Mental Health. Poster presented at the Meeting of the Minds annual conference of the Mental Health America of San Diego County, San Diego, CA.
Willging, C. E., Fettes, D., Lagare, T., Farr, A., Sandhu, A., Velandia, E., & Aarons, G. A. (2020, December). Advancement of a Community-Academic Partnership for Translational Use of Research Evidence in Child Welfare Policy and Practice (CAPTURE). Poster presented at the annual conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation in Health, Virtual.
Velandia, E. A., Naumov, V., Wilkes, C. T., & Plunkett, S. W. (2020, November). Maternal and Paternal Behaviors as Potential Moderators of the Relation Between Peer Victimization and Depression and Overt Aggression in Male and Female Latino Adolescents. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Virtual.
Velandia, E. A., Naumov, V., & Plunkett, S. W. (2020, August). Hostile experiences and depression: Is emotion regulation a mediator or moderator? Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Virtual.