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Kelsie Allison (She/Her/Hers)
Doctoral Student, Department of Psychology, Old Dominion University
Kelsie is a fifth-year graduate student in the Health Psychology Ph.D. program at Old Dominion University. She earned her B.A. in Psychology from Christopher Newport University in 2018 and M.S. in Psychology in 2022 from Old Dominion University. Her research interests include promoting positive identity development for various populations (e.g., racial minorities, first-generation college students, college athletes) by examining identity processes and individual and contextual assets and how they relate to various outcomes such as mental health, academic achievement, and overall well-being. Her dissertation, which is expected to be defended Fall 2023, is focusing on intersectional cultural identities among first-generation college students
Sunday Hull (She/Her/Hers)
Doctoral Student, Department of Psychology, Old Dominion University
Sunday is a first-year graduate student in the Clinical Psychology PhD program at Old Dominion University (Virginia Consortium Program in Clinical Psychology). After receiving her BA from Harvard University, she worked as a research coordinator at the Depression Clinical and Research Program at Massachusetts General Hospital. Her research interests include examining risk and protective factors for self-injurious thoughts and behaviors using a minority stress model, especially among sexual and gender minority youth. In addition, her longstanding work volunteering on a crisis line has prompted her interest in better understanding the experiences of participants in teen-to-teen crisis line interventions, both for youth volunteers and callers.
Camille Johnson (she/they)
Doctoral Student, Department of Psychology, Old Dominion University
Camille is a first-year graduate student in the Clinical Psychology Ph.D. program at Old Dominion (Virginia Consortium Program in Clinical Psychology). After earning her B.A. in Psychology from Barnard College in 2020, Camille worked as an intake coordinator and research assistant at the American Institute for Cognitive Therapy. As a graduate student, Camille’s research interests focus on risk and protective factors for suicidal behaviors, especially among sexual and gender minority youth. She is particularly interested in examining the roles of interpersonal interactions and belongingness in suicidality through a minority stress model, and using this knowledge to develop novel interventions.
Raksha Kandlur, M.A. (She/Her/Hers)
Doctoral Student, Department of Psychology, Old Dominion University
SREB-State Doctoral Scholars Program Fellowship Awardee
Raksha is a fouth-year graduate student in the Clinical Psychology PhD program at Old Dominion University (Virginia Consortium Program in Clinical Psychology). Her research interests focus on understanding risk and resilience, stressful life experiences, and suicidal throughs and behaviors among minoritized youth through a culturally and developmentally informed lens. She is also interested in utilizing multi-modal approaches to comprehensively understand suicidal thoughts and behaviors, treatment engagement, and mental health disparities among underserved populations in the US and globally.
Kinjal Patel (She/Her/Hers)
Doctoral Student, Department of Psychology, Old Dominion University
Kinjal is a third-year graduate student in the Clinical Psychology PhD program at Old Dominion University (Virginia Consortium Program in Clinical Psychology). She earned her B.S. in Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2019. As a graduate student, Kinjal is interested in examining the interactions between interpersonal stressors, biological processes, and cognitive-emotional mechanisms during adolescence to predict suicidal behavior. In addition, she hopes to study youth suicide risk among diverse populations to better understand and decrease mental health disparities.