Experience

CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy

• United States
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Postdoctoral Fellow in Implementation Science at the Center for Innovation in Mental Health

  • Mar 2022 - Present

  - supporting implementation and evaluation of three NYC-based projects aiming to increase access to mental healthcare for low-income New Yorkers, adolescent New Yorkers, and Harlem residents - using community-based, participatory action research (CBPR) approaches to elicit and incorporate community perspectives in intervention implementation, evaluation and dissemination - designing and providing training to community mental health task sharers in community outreach, identification of… Show more - supporting implementation and evaluation of three NYC-based projects aiming to increase access to mental healthcare for low-income New Yorkers, adolescent New Yorkers, and Harlem residents - using community-based, participatory action research (CBPR) approaches to elicit and incorporate community perspectives in intervention implementation, evaluation and dissemination - designing and providing training to community mental health task sharers in community outreach, identification of mental health concerns, provision of education about mental health, and creating tailored coping skills plans for New Yorkers as well as providing case management and warm handoffs to licensed professionals - providing ongoing coaching and clinical support for clinicians and task sharers across all projects - supporting evaluation design, analysis, and dissemination Show less - supporting implementation and evaluation of three NYC-based projects aiming to increase access to mental healthcare for low-income New Yorkers, adolescent New Yorkers, and Harlem residents - using community-based, participatory action research (CBPR) approaches to elicit and incorporate community perspectives in intervention implementation, evaluation and dissemination - designing and providing training to community mental health task sharers in community outreach, identification of… Show more - supporting implementation and evaluation of three NYC-based projects aiming to increase access to mental healthcare for low-income New Yorkers, adolescent New Yorkers, and Harlem residents - using community-based, participatory action research (CBPR) approaches to elicit and incorporate community perspectives in intervention implementation, evaluation and dissemination - designing and providing training to community mental health task sharers in community outreach, identification of mental health concerns, provision of education about mental health, and creating tailored coping skills plans for New Yorkers as well as providing case management and warm handoffs to licensed professionals - providing ongoing coaching and clinical support for clinicians and task sharers across all projects - supporting evaluation design, analysis, and dissemination Show less



Columbia University Irving Medical Center

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 700 & Above Employee

• Clinical Psychology Intern, Latinx Mental Health and Inpatient Eating Disorders Tracks

  • Jul 2021 - Jul 2022

  Provided inpatient and outpatient neuropsychological evaluations, individual therapy, and group therapy to adults in English and Spanish. Provided inpatient and outpatient neuropsychological evaluations, individual therapy, and group therapy to adults in English and Spanish.



Adelphi University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Outpatient Therapist, Derner Institute of Psychology

  • Aug 2018 - Mar 2022

  Providing intake evaluations, as well as neuropsychological assessment, long and short-term outpatient psychodynamic psychotherapy, behavioral coping skills, case management, and crisis management.

• Graduate Research Fellow, Social Cognitive Neuroscience Lab

  • Sep 2017 - Mar 2022

  Conducting research to assess social cognitive neuroscience. Recruiting, screening, scheduling, and running participants through an EEG protocol assessing social cognitive variables.



HealthRight International

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Volunteer Forensic Psychological Evaluator

  • May 2018 - Mar 2022

  Providing psychological evaluations to refugees seeking asylum in the United States. Providing psychological evaluations to refugees seeking asylum in the United States.



The City University of New York

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Project Coordinator, Translational Research on Emotions, Addictions and Trauma (TREAT) Lab

  • Feb 2018 - Mar 2022

  Coordinating a study assessing the neuroscience of a mindfulness intervention administered via a mobile device application in traumatized individuals as compared with healthy controls. Recruiting, screening, scheduling, consenting, and running participants through EEG assessments, troubleshooting EEG equipment, wrangling a large team of CUNY undergraduates, running lab meetings. Coordinating a study assessing the neuroscience of a mindfulness intervention administered via a mobile device application in traumatized individuals as compared with healthy controls. Recruiting, screening, scheduling, consenting, and running participants through EEG assessments, troubleshooting EEG equipment, wrangling a large team of CUNY undergraduates, running lab meetings.



Brooklyn College

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Clinical Supervisor, Psychology Extern, Immigrant Success Liaison, Student Counseling Center

  • Aug 2019 - Jun 2021

  -Provided short- and long-term psychodynamic psychotherapy in English and Spanish to emerging adults -Ran an integrative skills group with the Immigrant Student Success Office to support undocumented students -Provided clinical instruction and supervision to mental health counseling masters students seeing patients for the first time in a practicum class -Provided short- and long-term psychodynamic psychotherapy in English and Spanish to emerging adults -Ran an integrative skills group with the Immigrant Student Success Office to support undocumented students -Provided clinical instruction and supervision to mental health counseling masters students seeing patients for the first time in a practicum class



Mount Sinai Beth Israel

• Hospitals and Health Care
• 700 & Above Employee

• Psychology Extern

  • Jul 2018 - Jul 2019

  Providing group inpatient psychotherapy including psychodynamic psychotherapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, art therapy, creative writing therapy, and music therapy and documenting patient symptoms and behavior. Attending rounds and contributing to patient assessment and treatment planning. Providing group inpatient psychotherapy including psychodynamic psychotherapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, art therapy, creative writing therapy, and music therapy and documenting patient symptoms and behavior. Attending rounds and contributing to patient assessment and treatment planning.



Columbia University Irving Medical Center

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 700 & Above Employee

• Bilingual Clinical Coordinator

  • Jun 2014 - Jul 2017

  Coordinated clinical psychiatric services including individual, dyadic, and group therapy, as well as medication management, in English and Spanish for a free clinic serving survivors of intimate partner violence and sex trafficking. Assessed risk and managed crises as a first line of contact for the clinic, whose population was unusually high risk due to the high levels of trauma incurred. Conducted descriptive research and program evaluation of this clinic's services, assisted… Show more Coordinated clinical psychiatric services including individual, dyadic, and group therapy, as well as medication management, in English and Spanish for a free clinic serving survivors of intimate partner violence and sex trafficking. Assessed risk and managed crises as a first line of contact for the clinic, whose population was unusually high risk due to the high levels of trauma incurred. Conducted descriptive research and program evaluation of this clinic's services, assisted with administration of expansion of these clinics to all five boroughs of New York City in partnership the New York City Mayor's Office to Combat Domestic Violence.

• Research Assistant

  • Sep 2013 - Jul 2017

  Assisting with five clinical psychology research studies under Dr. Catherine Monk, including investigations of dyadic therapeutic interventions for trauma in mothers and children; stress, nutrition, and effects of SSRIs on fetal cognitive development; epigenetics, and teenage pregnancy.



New York University

• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Adjunct Instructor of Introduction to Creative Writing: Fiction and Poetry

  • Jan 2013 - Jun 2013



Maimonides Medical Center

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 700 & Above Employee

• Starworks Child Life Services Fellow- Creative Writing and Visual Art

  • Aug 2012 - Jun 2013



Explosion-Proof

• United States
• Writing and Editing

• Poetry Editor

  • Apr 2011 - Feb 2013



New York University

• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Assistant, Economic and Social Empowerment Study, Silver School of Social Work

  • Dec 2011 - Aug 2012



Clinical Directors Network / Yale School of Epidemiology and Public Health

• Research Assistant, CP+ Study

  • May 2010 - Jan 2012

  This five-year project, funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), aims to reduce risk for HIV and other sexually transmitted infections and improve birth outcomes and health behaviors during and after pregnancy among adolescents (aged 14-21) receiving prenatal care in Community Health Centers (CHCs). This will be accomplished by implementing an innovative model of group prenatal care. This five-year project, funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), aims to reduce risk for HIV and other sexually transmitted infections and improve birth outcomes and health behaviors during and after pregnancy among adolescents (aged 14-21) receiving prenatal care in Community Health Centers (CHCs). This will be accomplished by implementing an innovative model of group prenatal care.



Charlotte Sheedy Literary Agency

• Editorial Assistant

  • Feb 2010 - May 2010

  Reading novels. The agency represents Eve Ensler, Diane McWhorter, Daniel Handler (Lemony Snicket), Vivian Gornick, Marilyn French, and many others. Reading novels. The agency represents Eve Ensler, Diane McWhorter, Daniel Handler (Lemony Snicket), Vivian Gornick, Marilyn French, and many others.



National Lawyers Guild Foundation, Committee to Save Mumia Abu Jamal

• Freelance Development Assistant

  • Feb 2010 - May 2010



Frances Goldin Literary Agency

• Editorial Assistant

  • Jan 2010 - May 2010

  Representing Mumia Abu Jamal, Barbara Kingsolver, Allison Bechdel, Margaret Wise Brown, Camilo Mejia, and other lefties. Representing Mumia Abu Jamal, Barbara Kingsolver, Allison Bechdel, Margaret Wise Brown, Camilo Mejia, and other lefties.



Arthur Magazine

• Contributor

  • Aug 2009 - May 2010

  Tele-work! Tele-work!



Boston Review

• Editorial Assistant

  • Aug 2009 - Dec 2009

  Editing, fact-checking, reading fiction submissions, proofreading, research, intern-type duties: I'm so there. Editing, fact-checking, reading fiction submissions, proofreading, research, intern-type duties: I'm so there.



McSweeney's Publishing

• Editorial Intern

  • Jul 2009 - Aug 2009

  I fact-check, research, proofread, and transcribe interviews, and occasionally read poetry. I fact-check, research, proofread, and transcribe interviews, and occasionally read poetry.



IIE

• Research
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Professor Of English, Universidad Tecnológica de Bolívar

  • Aug 2008 - Jun 2009

  Instructed intermediate and advanced courses in English, with emphasis on culturally relevant, interesting material, as well as grammar, to students and faculty as a second language. Instructed intermediate and advanced courses in English, with emphasis on culturally relevant, interesting material, as well as grammar, to students and faculty as a second language.



Universidad Tecnológica de Bolívar

• English-Spanish Translator

  • Aug 2008 - Jun 2009

  Translation of scientific papers, live translation of business meetings, administrative translation, copy editing and proofreading of bilingual marketing materials. Translation of scientific papers, live translation of business meetings, administrative translation, copy editing and proofreading of bilingual marketing materials.



National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

• Research Assistant

  • 2003 - 2004