After receiving my doctorate in community psychology and acquiring over a decade of domestic and international experience as a community development practitioner, I joined the Center for Health Policy and Inequalities Research (CHPIR) at Duke University and am currently a Research Scholar.

Much of my research interests have a strong focus on child protection and inclusion and child and adolescent mental health disparities, particularly for marginalized youth populations such as orphaned and separated children, transition-age youth, immigrant/refugee youth, youth of color, and LGBTQ youth in low- and middle- income contexts.