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Norma completed a dual Bachelor’s degree from UWM in Psychology and Social Welfare. As an undergraduate student, she was very active in research and completed a senior thesis. Following graduation, Norma worked as a Case Manager for several years, where she served a crucial role in connecting community members with mental health and social resources. This experience allowed her to want to return to school so that she could not just connect community members with mental health services, but be the one to provide them in both English and Spanish. She chose to return to UWM once again to advance her education. Normais passionate about community-engaged research as well as implementation science. Currently,  Norma has been focused on developing an innovative behavioral fidelity coding system – a process for evaluating adherence to the “Cultivating Resilience” intervention.

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). 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.

Prior to coming to UWM, Monica was a Research Study Coordinator at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. Her passions include examining the impact of intergenerational trauma on socioemotional development and the development of interpersonal relationships among Latinx families, mental health education, and the intentional dissemination of mental health resources among minoritized communities. In addition to being a graduate student, she is a community engagement specialist for HealWise (formerly Therapy4thePeople), a nonprofit dedicated to providing affordable local mental health resources to people of color and low-income individuals.

Tori received a dual Bachelor’s from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Psychology and Spanish. She is pursuing the Master of Health Psychology program at UWM to gain further mental health equity research prior to applying to Clinical Psychology PhD programs. Before starting the Master’s at UWM, Tori was a Research Intern in the lab helping with several projects. Tori’s interests lie in neuropsychology and social models/systems of health, illness, and chronic stress that operate in underserved populations, including the Latinx community.  Tori is leading a project focused on determining the key and modifiable elements of the “Cultivating Resilience” intervention, which is aligned with her emerging interests in implementation science.

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