Hyeouk Chris Hahm is a researcher dedicated to reducing health disparities with a particular emphasis on building empirical evidence of health risk behaviors (e.g., self-harm, suicide and HIV risk behaviors). Funded by NIMH grants (K01 and R34), Hahm has developed and tested theoretical framework that explains suicide behaviors among Asian American women. Further, she developed culturally grounded interventions: AWARE (Asian American Women’s Actions in Resilience and Empowerment) and Youth AWARE, which has been implemented in colleges and high schools. Hahm is a recipient of a research mentor award at Boston University and innovator’s award from Asian Women for Health. Click here to view the AWARE Lab website.

Cindy H. Liu, Ph.D. is currently an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School. Her areas of investigation include the measurement and mechanisms of psychosocial stress, cultural differences in socio-emotional development, and developmental and culturally based interventions that reduce mental health disparities. She received her degree in Clinical Psychology from the University of Oregon. She served as the Director of Multicultural Research at the Commonwealth Research Center at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center for six years prior to her current position as the Director of the Developmental Risk and Cultural Resilience (DRCR) Program within Pediatric Newborn Medicine and Psychiatry at Brigham and Women's Hospital. Click here to view the DRCR Lab website.

Chang (Jenny) Zhao is a developmental scientist with a PhD in Family and Human Development from Arizona State University and a BA in Psychology from Pennsylvania State University. She conducts culturally and contextually informed research within ethnically and racially minoritized communities. Her current work focuses on how families' ecologies (e.g., neighborhoods and activity spaces) shape family processes, parental mental health, and youth development in U.S. Latinx families. She is dedicated to expanding her research on ethnic-racial socialization and mental health in Asian American families.

Ritika Rastogi earned her PhD in Developmental Psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles and her BA from Northwestern University. As a scholar, she is interested in applying Critical and multidisciplinary approaches to supporting marginalized (BIPoC and immigrant-origin) young people’s positive development and mental health. Her current research examines adolescents’ peer relationships, namely friendships as spaces for youth to develop resilience and resistance to school-based manifestations of structural oppression (e.g., discrimination, under-funding). She is also interested in unpacking the diversity within communities often viewed as homogeneous (e.g., Asians, Latino/a/x/es), with an emphasis on identifying young people's innate cultural strengths as targets for institutional support.

G. Alice Woolverton earned her PhD in Clinical Psychology from Suffolk University and her BA in English from Amherst College. She completed her predoctoral clinical training at Massachusetts General Hospital working with children and adolescents. As a scholar, Alice is focused on reducing and preventing the high costs of racism on youths’ mental wellbeing; her current work evaluates a caregiver-child antiracism program for white families. She is also interested in unpacking promotors of youth psychological health during periods of stress, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. She has particular expertise using qualitative and mixed research methods.  

Candice received her B.A. in Psychology and minor in Chinese from the University of Texas at Austin, where she completed her undergraduate honors thesis on children's endorsement of myths. Before joining the DRCR lab, she worked as an undergraduate research assistant in a cognitive development lab and a sexual psychophysiology lab. She is interested in developing a culturally sensitive understanding of early childhood experiences, wellbeing, and resilience. In the future, she hopes to pursue a PhD in clinical psychology with a focus on working with Asian immigrant families and children.

Anthony earned his B.A. in Political Science with minors in Global Studies and Film from the University of California, Los Angeles. Drawing from personal experiences and a background in mental health counseling and community development, Anthony strives to do community-engaged research on child adversity and mental health outcomes in marginalized populations. Before joining the DRCR lab, he worked as a research assistant investigating social determinants of health in Harvard University's Department of Psychology and in the Department of Environmental Health at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health. Through research, he hopes to work with communities to inform culturally sensitive interventions addressing family trauma and promoting resilience.  

Vi holds an MA in Child Study and Human Development from Tufts University, with a concentration on Clinical-Developmental Health and Psychology. She is passionate about understanding how children navigate socializing messages during their identity exploration process and is particularly intrigued in innovative research methods that capture cultural nuances and diverse lived experiences of individuals. Previously, she served as a graduate research assistant at Boston University's School of Social Work, assisting in an intervention project supporting Vietnamese and Chinese-speaking families in conversations about race and racism at the CFACCT Research Lab. Vi aims to pursue doctoral studies in School Psychology to further her commitment to fostering the social-emotional well-being of children and youth.

​Wenbo received his BA and in Psychology and Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences from Northwestern University and his MA in Clinical Psychology from Teachers College, Columbia University. Prior to joining the lab, Wenbo was working as a research assistant at Dr. Christine Cha’s Lab for Clinical and Developmental Studies, studying suicidal ideations and self-injurious thoughts and behaviors among adolescents. He was also working as a research assistant at pediatric Behavioral Health Integration Program and as a project coordinator at Dr. Beatrice Beebe’s Communication Science lab. He is interested in developing culturally-adapted, cost-effective, and scalable interventions for Chinese and Chinese American adolescents who are at risk of mental health disorders, and he wishes to pursue a PhD in clinical psychology to further investigate culturally-adapted evidence-based treatment for the population.