Experience

Center for Community Counseling & Engagement

• United States
• Mental Health Care
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Executive Director

  • Aug 2023 - Present

  San Diego, California, United States Located in the heart of downtown City Heights, CCCE is a non-profit community center providing low-cost counseling services to individuals, couples, and families in San Diego. CCCE is a counselor training facility operated by San Diego State University (SDSU) offering hands-on education for pre-licensed graduate students in the fields of Marriage and Family Therapy (MFT) and Community-based Counseling. Our counselors are supervised by licensed therapists and members of SDSU’s Counseling and… Show more Located in the heart of downtown City Heights, CCCE is a non-profit community center providing low-cost counseling services to individuals, couples, and families in San Diego. CCCE is a counselor training facility operated by San Diego State University (SDSU) offering hands-on education for pre-licensed graduate students in the fields of Marriage and Family Therapy (MFT) and Community-based Counseling. Our counselors are supervised by licensed therapists and members of SDSU’s Counseling and School Psychology faculty. The Center for Community Counseling and Engagement, CCCE affirms its commitment to recognize, address and stand in solidarity against all forms of racism and ethnic oppression. As an anti-racist community center, we are committed to advancing diversity, equity, inclusion, belongingness and social and racial justice. We strive to be socially aware and collaborate with community members to address direct and indirect exposure to racism and social injustice. Show less



San Diego State University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Professor

  • Jun 2023 - Present

  San Diego, California, United States

• Associate Professor

  • Jun 2019 - Jun 2023

  San Diego, CA

• Assistant Professor

  • 2014 - Jun 2023



Asian American Psychological Association

• United States
• Research Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• President

  • Jul 2021 - Dec 2021

• Vice President

  • Jan 2019 - Jul 2021



SDSU Center for Counseling & Community Engagement

• Director of Research & Development

  • Jun 2017 - Jul 2021

  San Diego, CA



University of Massachusetts Lowell

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Assistant Professor of Psychology

  • Jul 2010 - 2014

  Teaching and Research



Asian American Psychological Association

• Volunteer Co-Chair

  • 2009 - 2010

  Recruited, trained, and coordinated volunteers for the Asian American Psychological Association conference.



University of Illinois Chicago

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Graduate Student

  • 2004 - 2010



Ethnography of Refugee Children in a Multicultural School

• Project Manager

  • 2004 - 2007

  Managed undergraduate research assistants. Worked as liasion between project team and elementary school research site.



UCLA Peer Relations Project

• Project Manager

  • Jul 2003 - Jul 2004

  Managed research team of undergraduate, graduate, and post-docs. Coordinated data collection twice a year at 5 Los Angeles middle schools.