Professional Experience
Preventative healthcare and integrative health.
- Incorporated innovative, neurocognitive and mental fitness therapies with interdisciplinary medical services
Focus on how neural networks interact with higher-order factors like identity and social context to influence performance and health outcomes.
- Special interest in applied interventions
Focus: Intergroup relations and health disparities—focusing on cardiovascular functioning and disease, mental health and psychosocial resources.
- Utilizes multiple methodologies—e.g., laboratory experiments and epidemiological data—to examine effects of individual, cultural and structural racism on health
SPEL explores how social concerns--from group membership to morals--shape the perceptions, cognitions and evaluations that drive behavior, and the underlying neural mechanisms that mediate these processes.
Promotes the development of research regarding people with group identities that can be devalued in society.
- Examines the social contexts in which these group members navigate and the experiences that go with having these identities
Professional life-coaching and psychotherapy group practice.
- Dedicated to helping individuals achieve their best performance and wellbeing across personal and professional domains of their lives
Pioneering scientific techniques for measuring psychological well-being and physical health based on the analysis of language in social media.
- Collaborated between computer scientists, psychologists, and statisticians
- Shed new light on the psychosocial processes that affect health and happiness
- Exploring the potential for unobtrusive well-being measures to supplement expensive survey methods
Study prosociality: Why are people willing to help each other, and how can prosociality be promoted?
- Dedicated to the study of intergroup relations and diversity
Provided individual and family therapy for court-ordered youth/young adults displaying sexually inappropriate behaviors.
A resource collective of musicians, artists, health professionals, psychologists, and a variety of other skilled professionals.
- Hosts events that fuse education, entertainment, and collaboration
- Mission to advance citizens of Philadelphia in developing projects, experiencing cultural enrichment, and benefitting from a vast pool of social, educational and media resources