🚨New Pub Alert 🚨 In this paper, we argue that gendered racial stereotypes are an underlying motivational mechanism that shapes Black girls’ STEM identity and persistence. We also highlight the need to participate in more theoretical integrations across disciplines!

🚨New Paper🚨 Check out our paper examining the role of mindfulness in the association between impulsivity and suicide risk for Black young adults. Findings support the clinical utility of #mindfulness as a buffer to the consequences of impulsivity. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

I can finally announce this! I am grateful to have received the NIDA DP1 Racial Equity Visionary Award! Always grateful to the communities I do work with who trust me and believe in me to do this work with them! ysph.yale.edu/news-article/o…

New professor on the block! Year 1 on the tenure track! Stay tuned for my updates on adjusting to the New England winters and losing access to my kitchen drawer of plastic grocery bags (IYKYK) . 😂

📣 Calling all undergrad and grad students! Our little sister brand, Therapy for Black Girls University, is excited to partner with The Holding Space Foundation to award 4 Black women a Self-Care Scholarship! Applications close on Sept. 1! Apply at therapyforblackgirls.com/tbgu

My faculty profile is now live! psyc.umd.edu/facultyprofile… This is also a good time to share that I’ll be recruiting my first graduate student to start in Fall 2024 in the Clinical Psych PhD program @ UMD College Park. More info about my lab’s upcoming projects coming soon!

It's happening! Excited to launch my #Dissertation! Are you a Black mother? Do you have a daughter? We're launching a study to understand #Hope #Healing & Gendered Racial Experiences in Black mother-daughter relationships. 💜 Interested? shorturl.at/myLZ8

I'm excited to share the great news that VCU is now ranked among the top 20 most innovative public universities in the U.S.! A huge thank you to our VCU faculty, staff and clinical colleagues, without whom this achievement would not have been possible. news.vcu.edu/article/2023/0…

Come work with me!!

Y’all the tenure track has been tenure-tracking 🥲 but as of this week - I have a furnished lab space, lab name/website in development (coming soon), & 2 brilliant graduate student research assistants working with me!!

Had a lil Hallow-Meme party over the weekend. This is some of the looks. (A thread)

Excited that another paper from the LOVING Study Collaborative + friends is out in the Journal of Family Psych: doi.org/10.1037/fam000… We examines patterns of discrimination Multiracial college students face, w/ extra attention to discrimination coming from WITHIN the family

Hi! I’m seeking high school students (13-18 yrs.) for a qualitative study aimed at understanding students’ identities. Feel free to share this flyer with any caregivers of high schoolers! Thank you!

[New Op-Ed in @DiverseIssues] Black Youth Mental Health: Understanding and Being Culturally Responsive to Promote Homeplace and Black Joy diverseeducation.com/opinion/articl…

Very excited to announce that I am recruiting participants for my first community-based, NIH-awarded study! Looking for Hispanic/Latino/a/x and Black/African adults AND their family members experiencing anxiety, OCD, or depression to share their stories @bcm_ocd #psychtwitter

New publication alert! Led by Dr. Isha Metzger we outline the importance of measuring social & mass media in the tenure & promotion process! For many of us, social & mass media is used to disseminate our research findings to real people. Send to your Deans! palgrave.com/gp/journal/413…

New study w/ Rachel Baccile is out AJPH We measured suicide rates & methods across race, age, and sex groups in Chicago from 2015-2021. The results are devastating💔 We found that suicides increased in Black males, Black females & Latino males bit.ly/3T8CPFG

Such an honor to present at the Rutgers University Multidisciplinary Multiracial Research Conference alongside of other scholars that I have looked up to for YEARS. Lots of exciting work happening in the field. Shout out to Dr. Sarah Gaither for putting together an amazing thread about it!

Hi twitter friends! 👋🏽I’m hoping to apply for a K01 award soon and would love to review previous application examples (especially of training plans). If anyone is willing to share, please DM or email me ([email protected])