Emelyn Auad (She/Her/Hers)
Project Coordinator, MARS Study, Old Dominion University
Emelyn graduated from Hunter College CUNY, where she majored in Clinical Psychology and minored in Spanish. Her main research interests focus on the parent-child relationship and suicidal thoughts and behaviors in racial/ethnic minority adolescents. Her previous research examined the effects of impulsivity and parental emotional reactions on suicide ideation and attempts. She plans to pursue a PhD in Clinical Psychology in the future.
Abigail Luce (She/Her/Hers)
Project Coordinator, Sleepio Study, Old Dominion University
Abigail graduated from Texas Tech University with a B.A. in Psychology and a minor in Spanish. Her main research interests are how emotion regulation difficulties may uniquely influence youth self-injurious thoughts and behaviors, both proximally and across longer time spans. She is additionally interested in the differing developmental trajectories of emotion regulation capabilities, and how this may influence the first onset of suicidal thoughts. To investigate these research questions, Abigail plans to obtain her PhD in Clinical Psychology.