ICD PhD Student Highlights: 2023-24 Academic Year

Jasmine Banegas and Hopewell Hodges led a symposium titled Integrating community-based participatory research and implementation science to deliver a multisystemic resilience intervention for immigrant and refugee youth at the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies 39th Annual Meeting in Los Angeles, CA. This symposium described preliminary findings on the feasibility and acceptability of TST-R in MN and VT Public Schools. 

Jasmine Banegas also led a talk with colleague Laura Soltani and mentor Dr. Mimi Choy-Brown from the School of Social Work titled Implementation and Adaptation of a Multi-Tier Intervention for Immigrant and Refugee Youth: A Process Overview and Evaluation at Society for Social and Research 28th Annual Conference in Washington, D.C. This presentation described a process overview of how the Collaborative for Immigrant and Refugee Children’s Leadership and Excellence (CIRCLE) Project applied cultural adaptation frameworks to drive cultural responsiveness of a trauma-informed evidence-based multi-tiered model–Trauma Systems Therapy for Refugees (TST-R).

Erika DeAngelis presented the following first-author poster: 

"When testimony causes harm: Investigating the role of race and gender in children's evaluations of epistemic injustice" at the Cognitive Development Society in Pasadena, California.

Bria Gresham shared the following conference acceptance:

Gresham, B., & Karatekin, C. (May 2024). A scoping review of neighborhood effects and health among youth: Social determinants of health. Poster to be presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Anti-Racist Developmental Science Summit: Transforming Research, Practices, and Policies, Panama City, Panama.

Sanju Koirala's research was selected to be a part of a press conference on depression at the Society for Neuroscience (SFN) conference. Koirala's research was selected as one of less than 50 out of over 12,500 abstracts submitted.

Sarah Pan had the following lightning talk accepted by Mathematical Cognition and Learning Society (MCLS):

Pan, S.E., Wackerle-Hollman, A., & Mazzocco, M.M.M. (2024, June). Increasing Family Support Professionals' Ability to Model Early Math Talk: Results from an Intervention Study. Lightning talk accepted by Mathematical Cognition and Learning Society (MCLS); Washington D.C., US.

Jay Santos presented the following title at the American Psych and Law Conference on March 23.

"Investigating the use of a multi-attribute utility tool to attenuate bias against LGBTQ+ defendants"

Diqi Zeng gave the following presentations:

Zeng, D., Munson, B. & Koenig, M.  (Mar, 2024). presented the data blitz titled “Do children rely on genderedness in others' speech to decide whom to seek help from?" at the Biennial Conference Meeting at the Cognitive Development Society, Pasadena, CA. 

Zeng, D., Wong, E. & Munson, B.  (Mar, 2024) presented the poster titled “Unveiling the complexity of gendered speech in early childhood: efficient rater sampling for precise ratings on 5-year-olds” at the Biennial Conference Meeting at the Cognitive Development Society, Pasadena, CA.