Stephanie Castelin, M.A.

Stephanie is a fifth-year doctoral student in the Clinical Psychology program at the University of Cincinnati. She is a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow and a recipient of the University of Cincinnati Albert C. Yates Fellowship. She completed her bachelor’s in psychology with a minor in statistics at the University of Central Florida in the Fall of 2019.

Stephanie has worked on several research projects in her graduate career, including a youth participatory action research project with high school students conducting drug abuse research (Growing Community Change Researchers in STEM) and a community-partnered empowerment initiative to improve healthy equity for Black families with a child with autism. Her master's thesis was focused on examining the mental health impact of stress at the intersection of racism and COVID-19, as well as risk and protective factors in this association. She is currently working on her dissertation, which examines community perspectives on racial healing in Cincinnati. Broadly, her research interests include examining socioecological factors contributing to stress and resulting health disparities within the Black community. She would like to use her research findings to develop and implement community-wide interventions.