Alma is a first-year doctoral student in the Clinical Psychology department. Alma was born and raised in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, and graduated in 2018 from Duke University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in both Psychology and Spanish. Throughout her four years at Duke, she worked as an undergraduate research assistant at the Cognitive and Behavioral Research and Treatment Program (CBRTP), under the mentorship of Dr. Zachary Rosenthal and Dr. Gabriela Nagy. After she graduated, she received her Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) certification and worked as an English teacher in Seoul, South Korea for three years. Her research interests lie in developing and implementing community-adapted tools to more equitably provide care to underserved communities, with a particular interest in the Latinx community. In her free time, Alma enjoys watching true-crime documentaries, photography, and reading classic literature in both English and Spanish.
