Susana Sotelo is a first year doctoral student in the School Psychology program at the University of California, Riverside. She completed her undergraduate degree in Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her commitment to culturally and linguistically diverse youth spans classroom, research, and advocacy settings. Susana’s research interests center on equitable and evidence-based interventions and assessments for multilingual youth.

Current Projects:

South American Pre-Hispanic Views on Special Needs and Difference

Translation and Adaptation of a Qualitative Self-Report Instrument

Correlates of Psychoeducational Outcomes among Minoritized Language and Culture Students

Emma Ferns is a doctoral candidate in Northern Arizona University's Combined Counseling/School Psychology PhD program. She is currently completing her predoctoral internship in child clinical psychology at the University of Alabama, Birmingham's Sparks Center for Development and Learning Disorders. As a two-time Leadership and Education in Neurodevelopmental Disorders (LEND) fellow, Emma's research interests revolve around social justice in neurodevelopmental disorder assessment.

Current Project: Under the direction of Dr. Carlos Calderon, she is investigating the consistency among methods used to identify specific learning disabilities in school psychology. 

Jordan is a doctoral student in Northern Arizona University’s School and Counseling Psychology PhD program. She is currently completing her doctoral internship in school psychology with the Avondale Elementary School District in partnership with Deer Valley Unified School District. Her research focuses on examining the structural validity and measurement invariance of the Woodcock-Johnson IV Tests of Cognitive Abilities, comparing bifactor and higher-order models, and exploring fairness across sex and age groups within contemporary psychometric frameworks and CHC theory.

Current Project: In collaboration with Dr. Carlos Calderon, Jordan is analyzing an archival dataset from the Woodcock Institute to evaluate the psychometric properties of the WJ IV COG, with emphasis on replication, structural validity, and measurement invariance across demographic groups.

Leticia Siqueiros is a doctoral candidate in Northern Arizona University's Combined Counseling/School Psychology PhD program. They are currently working as a school psychologist in the Deer Valley Unified School District in Phoenix, Arizona. 

Current project: In collaboration with Dr. Carlos Calderon, Leticia is completing their dissertation on bicultural self-efficacy and bicultural experiences as predictors of life satisfaction and academic success for self-identified Latinx bicultural college students.