I am a doctoral student in the adult track of the Clinical Psychology program at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale. I obtained my master’s degree in Clinical Psychology from Murray State University. Prior to this, I graduated from Arkansas State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Criminology. My research interests broadly include the reintegration process of offenders, criminal desistance, and offender risk assessment. I am in the process of launching a podcast, More Life: The Reentry Podcast, which focuses on offender reentry, advocacy, and reform. My clinical interests include working with justice-involved populations, individuals with severe mental illness, and substance use concerns. I am a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. During my spare time, I enjoy shopping, watching Netflix, and traveling.

I am a doctoral candidate in the child and adolescent concentration of the Clinical Psychology program at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale. I graduated from South Carolina State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology, with a minor in Sociology. My research interests are broadly focused on risk and protective factors that influence positive youth outcomes. Currently, I am developing a risk assessment for juvenile delinquency for adolescents from my home country, Trinidad and Tobago.  My clinical interests include working with children, adolescents, couples, and families with a broad array of presenting concerns. In my free time, I enjoy spending time with family and friends. I love visiting new places, trying new foods, and going on adventures.

I am a doctoral student at SIU’s Clinical Psychology program on the adult track. I am currently in my second year and am looking forward to growing in my clinical and research skills while in the program. My research interests involve treating justice-involved individuals with mental illness, incarcerated females, and forensic assessments. Currently, I am working on completing my thesis which is analyzing the relationship between internalizing, externalizing, and psychotic disorders at five levels of criminal risk. When I am not in the lab, I enjoy traveling and finding things to do outside (fishing, hiking, and playing with my dog). 

I am a junior undergraduate student here at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. I am majoring in Criminology/Criminal Justice and minoring in American Sign Language and Forensic Science. I am also on track to receive a certificate of Conservation Law Enforcement. My research interests involve forensics, criminal law, risk assessment, and substance abuse. I plan to attend graduate school after my time here at SIUC. During my free time, I enjoy reading, being outdoors, and going on road trips.

I am a second-year student in the adult track of Southern Illinois University's Clinical Psychology program. I graduated from the University of Utah with a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology, with a minor in Cognitive Science. Prior to attending SIU, I worked as a research coordinator at the University of Utah's School of Medicine in a diagnostic neuroimaging lab investigating mood disorders in substance-abusing women. My research interests are broadly centered on offender risk assessment and severe mental illness. I am currently working on my master's thesis, which is focused on the relationship between personal responsibility and mental illness on treatment needs among a sample of incarcerated sex offenders. In my free time, I enjoy being outdoors and spending time with my family, husband, and dogs.

I received my Ph.D. in Legal Psychology and M.A. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Texas at El Paso. Thereafter, I worked as a Project Manager on a federally funded grant at Fairleigh Dickinson University. I am now an Assistant Professor in the School of Psychological and Behavioral Sciences at SIUC. My research can be described as the intersection among clinical, cognitive, and social psychology as it relates to barriers to reducing crime. Specifically, I am interested in mental health, trust in science, judgment and decision-making, child maltreatment, rehabilitation, assessment, effective methods to communicate research, and implementation science.  

I had been working as a correctional psychologist for almost 20 years. While working, I received my M.A. at SIUC and Ph.D. in Counseling Science from the University of Tsukuba, Japan. In 2020, I took an academic position at Department of Psychology, Ochanomizu University. My research interests focus on offender risk assessment, risk communication, and addictive behaviors including nonsuicidal self-injury among correctional inmates.