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ECPN steering committee members’ assignments and bios (2018-2019) Last updated on 10-05-18 page 1 of 18 ECPN Committee Assignments 2018-2019 POSTER CONTEST AWARDS WEBPAGE MEMBERSHIP EVALUATION PROGRAM Katrina Debnam (Chair)* Nancy Trevino- Schafer (Chair)* Cindy Huang (Chair)* Ashwini Tiwari (Chair*) Rebecca Eliseo-Arras (Chair)* Melissa Cox (co-Chair)* Deinera Exner-Cortens Christine Steeger Lauren Berny Elizabeth Weybright Kelsie Cox MeLisa Creamer (co- Chair)* Silvia Alves Nishioka Kathleen Wendt Rachel Sadlon Crystal Smith Larissa Gaias Jessica Cance Jingchen Zhang Tiffany Jones Sun-Kyung Lee Dale Golden Katrina Champion Olivier Gaudet Megan Hicks Brittany Cooper Brook Kearley Larissa Maier Karen Robbie Jessika Bottiani Lindsey Weiler Amanda Sisselman- Borgia Emily LoBraico Nikola Zaharakis Julie Austen Tara Bautista Kimberly Rhoades Nadine Finigan-Carr Youngjo Im Kelly Rulison Scott Graupensperger Emily Hennessy Elise Pas ECPN members assigned to SPR Committees and Taskforces 20182019 Diversity Network Committee (DNC) International Committee 2 nd Tuesday 4pm EST Membership Committee Advocacy Committee 1 st Monday 2p EST Membership Communic- ation Committee (MCT) Training Committee Meeting Diversity Network Taskforce Training Needs Assessment Taskforce (TNA) Anilena Mejia, Elizabeth Kim (Liaisons) Emily Hennessy, Amanda Nguyen (Liaisons) Brian Barber, Tara Bautista (Liaisons) Kathleen Ratcliff, Laura Michaelson (Liaisons) Jennifer Doty, Nadine Finigan-Carr (Liaisons) Liz Baker, Eleanor Dizon (Liaisons) Nadine Finigan-Carr Elizabeth Kim (Nominated Liaisons) Kelly Rulison (Nominated Liaison) *All committee chairs and liaisons are expected to participate in monthly ECPN steering committee meetings

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ECPN Committee Assignments 2018-2019

POSTER CONTEST AWARDS WEBPAGE MEMBERSHIP EVALUATION PROGRAM

Katrina Debnam

(Chair)*

Nancy Trevino-

Schafer (Chair)*

Cindy Huang

(Chair)*

Ashwini Tiwari

(Chair*)

Rebecca Eliseo-Arras

(Chair)* Melissa Cox (co-Chair)*

Deinera Exner-Cortens Christine Steeger Lauren Berny Elizabeth Weybright Kelsie Cox MeLisa Creamer (co-

Chair)*

Silvia Alves Nishioka Kathleen Wendt Rachel Sadlon Crystal Smith Larissa Gaias Jessica Cance

Jingchen Zhang

Tiffany Jones

Sun-Kyung Lee

Dale Golden

Katrina Champion Olivier Gaudet Megan Hicks Brittany Cooper

Brook Kearley Larissa Maier Karen Robbie Jessika Bottiani

Lindsey Weiler

Amanda Sisselman-

Borgia Emily LoBraico Nikola Zaharakis

Julie Austen

Tara Bautista Kimberly Rhoades

Nadine Finigan-Carr Youngjo Im

Kelly Rulison Scott Graupensperger

Emily Hennessy

Elise Pas

ECPN members assigned to SPR Committees and Taskforces 2018–2019

Diversity

Network

Committee

(DNC)

International

Committee

2nd

Tuesday

4pm EST

Membership

Committee

Advocacy

Committee

1st Monday 2p

EST

Membership

Communic-

ation

Committee

(MCT)

Training

Committee

Meeting

Diversity

Network

Taskforce

Training Needs

Assessment

Taskforce (TNA)

Anilena

Mejia,

Elizabeth Kim

(Liaisons)

Emily

Hennessy,

Amanda

Nguyen

(Liaisons)

Brian Barber,

Tara Bautista

(Liaisons)

Kathleen

Ratcliff,

Laura

Michaelson

(Liaisons)

Jennifer Doty,

Nadine

Finigan-Carr

(Liaisons)

Liz Baker,

Eleanor Dizon

(Liaisons)

Nadine

Finigan-Carr

Elizabeth Kim

(Nominated

Liaisons)

Kelly Rulison

(Nominated

Liaison)

*All committee chairs and liaisons are expected to participate in monthly ECPN steering committee meetings

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ECPN STEERING COMMITTEE MEMBERS’ BIOSKETCHES

Steering committee chair and chair elect

Sarah Lindstrom Johnson, Ph.D. Current position:

ECPN Chair, 2017-2019 Previous positions:

ECPN Chair-elect; ECPN student poster committee chair; ECPN program committee chair; ECPN membership committee chair

Affiliation: School of Social and Family Dynamics, Arizona State University Training: Ph.D. in Public Health, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health

Postdoctoral training in adolescent health, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Research interests: Violence, future orientation, school environments, interventions

Website/contact: https://thesanfordschool.asu.edu/content/sarah-lindstrom-johnson

Katrina Debnam, Ph.D., MPH Current position:

ECPN Chair elect 2017-2019; ECPN student poster committee chair

Affiliation: School of Nursing & Curry School of Education, University of Virginia; Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Training: MPH in Health Education and Behavior, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Ph.D. in Public Health, Behavioral and Community Health, University of Maryland, College Park Research interests: School climate and equitable school discipline practices, adolescent relationship abuse, positive youth development, spirituality as a protective factor for adolescents, design and evaluation of school- and community-based prevention and intervention programs for children and families Website/contact: https://www.nursing.virginia.edu/people/kjd2m/

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Other steering committee members (by alphabetical order)

Julie Austen

Elizabeth (Liz) Baker, M.A.

Current position:

Steering committee;

Training Committee (co-

liaison); Training Needs

Assessment Taskforce

Affiliation: Department of Psychological Sciences, Kent State

University; Research-To-Policy Collaboration via the

Pennsylvania State University

Training: M.A. in Experimental Psychology with a Quantitative

Minor, Kent State University

Research interests: Interpersonal violence, dating violence,

implementation and evaluation of dating violence interventions,

romantic relationships, peer relationships, strategies for

strengthening connections between legislative staff and

researchers

Website/contact: https://www.kent.edu/psychology/elizabeth-liz-baker-ma; [email protected]

Brian R. Barber, Ph.D. Current position:

ECPN Program Committee SPR Membership Committee SPR Communications Committee

Affiliation: School of Lifespan Development and Education Sciences, Kent State University

Training: Masters in Education Leadership, University of Florida; Ph.D. in Special Education, University of Florida

Research interests: Effective behavioral prevention and intervention strategies in educational settings, executive function and the self-regulation of behavior, social and emotional learning in schools, setting factors affecting intervention implementation in alternative educational settings

Website/contact: https://www.kent.edu/ehhs/ldes/sped/profile/dr-brian-barber

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Tara Bautista Current Position: ECPN Membership committee SPR Membership Liaison

Affiliation: College of Nursing and Health Innovation, Arizona State University; Ph.D. Student Training: B.A. in Psychology, San Diego State University Research Interest: Stress, coping, and resilience; Substance Use; Mindfulness; Minority and Underserved populations; Interdisciplinary research; Intervention Acceptability and Adaptation; Integrative Mixed Methods Methodology.

Lauren Berny Current Position:

Webpage Committee

Affiliation: Evaluation Associate, Centerstone Research Institute in Nashville, TN Training: M.Ed. in Community Development and Action, Vanderbilt University

Research Interests: Adolescent prevention/intervention programs; Substance use; Place-based predictors/associations with health disparities; Statistical analysis; Geospatial Analysis Website/Contact: [email protected]

Jessika Bottiani, MPH, PhD Current Position:

Program Committee

Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Curry School of Education, University of Virginia Training: Masters in Public Health, PhD in Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Research Interests: Racial disparities in school discipline practices, discrimination and racism in school settings, equitable, inclusive, and culturally responsive supports for engagement and emotional wellbeing among students of color in middle and high schools Website/Contact: [email protected]; 434-243-7722

Katrina Champion, PhD

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Jessica Duncan Cance, M.P.H., Ph.D. Current Position: Program Committee Previous Positions:

ECPN Chair 2013-2015

Affiliation: Agency Analytics Unit Manager, Center for Health Statistics, Texas Department of State Health Services Training: Masters in Public Health (Behavioral Sciences), Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University; Ph.D. in Public Health (Health Behavior), Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Research Interests: Administrative data dissemination; opioid and other substance misuse; adolescent and young adult health; data-driven decision making in the public health setting Website/Contact: [email protected]; 512-776-2154

Brittany Cooper, PhD Current Position:

Program Committee

Affiliation: Associate Professor, Human Development; Director, Prevention Science Graduate Program Training: PhD in Human Development and Family Studies, Pennsylvania State University Research Interests: Dissemination and implementation science, evidence-based program adaptation, sustainability, and scale-up, person-centered methodological approaches to evaluating risk and protection, for whom and under what conditions preventive interventions are effective, community-based coalitions Website/Contact: [email protected]; 509-335-2896; https://hd.wsu.edu/people/people-profiles/?nid=brittany.cooper

MeLisa Creamer, M.P.H., Ph.D. Current Position:

Program Committee co-chair

Affiliation: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center of Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion Office on Smoking and Health, Epidemiology Branch

Training: Masters in Public Health, University of Texas School of Public Health; Ph.D. in Public Health (Epidemiology), University of Texas School of Public Health

Research Interests: Adolescent and young adult tobacco product use, including multiple tobacco product use and alternative tobacco product use, co-variation of tobacco product use with other risk and substance use behaviors

Website/Contact: [email protected]; 404-498-0242

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Kelsie Cox Current Position:

Evaluation Committee

Affiliation: Program Evaluator, Methodist Le Bonheur Community Outreach, Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital

Training: MEd in Community Development and Action, Vanderbilt University

Research Interests: Adolescent STI and pregnancy prevention, dating violence, program evaluation, prevention science, social determinants of health and adolescent health risk behaviors

Website/Contact: [email protected]

Melissa Cox, PhD, MPH Current Position: Program Committee

Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Health Education & Promotion, East Carolina University Training: PhD in Health Behavior, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; MPH in Health Behavior and Health Education, University of Michigan School of Public Health Research Interests: Adolescent alcohol use, social context for adolescent health risk behaviors, quantitative methods, multilevel interventions, behavioral theory, prevention science Website/Contact: [email protected]; melissajcox.com

Eleanor Dizon, B.S. Current Position:

Steering committee;

Training Committee (co-

liaison)

Affiliation: Department of Human Development, Doctoral Student in Prevention Science, Washington State University

Training: B.S. in Psychology, University of Oregon Research Interests: Role of relationships (e.g., parent-child; teacher-

student) in health behavior and educational achievement outcomes; methodological advances to support intervention development and implementation (e.g., Latent Class Analysis and Meta-Analysis); translational research and multidisciplinary collaboration

Website/Contact: https://hd.wsu.edu/people/graduate-students/

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Jennifer Doty Current Position:

SPR Membership Communications Committee Chair

Affiliation: Assistant Professor in the Department of Family, Youth, and Community Sciences,, University of Florida Training: Postdoctoral training in adolescent health; PhD in Family

Science, University of Minnesota Research Interests: Jennifer’s research interests are built around the

idea that parent-child relationships are a key leverage point for improving both parent and adolescent health and well-being. She views the online environment as a potential outlet for the dissemination of parent-based prevention programming for families.

Website/Contact: drjendoty.com; [email protected]

Rebecca Eliseo-Arras, PhD, MSW Current position:

ECPN Evaluation Committee Chair SPR Communications Committee

Affiliation: Assistant Professor, SUNY Empire State College Training: PhD in Social Welfare, University at Buffalo MSW University at Buffalo

BA in Psychology and Political Science, University at Buffalo Research Interests: Non-suicidal self-injury, suicide, trauma, and

addictions Website/Contact: [email protected]; [email protected]

Deinera Exner-Cortens, PhD, MPH Current position:

ECPN Poster Contest

Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Faculty of Social Work, University of Calgary

Training: PhD, Developmental Psychology, Cornell University; MPH, Social & Behavioral Science, Boston University

Research Interests: adolescent dating violence; healthy relationships; school mental health; implementation science; program evaluation

Website/Contact: http://fsw.ucalgary.ca/fsw_info/profiles/deinera-exner-cortens; [email protected]

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Nadine Finigan-Carr, PhD Current Position:

Diversity Network Committee Liaison

Previous Position: Training Committee Co-Chair

Affiliation: University of Maryland, Baltimore: School of Social Work; Research Associate Professor and Director of the Prevention of Adolescent Risks Initiative

Training: PhD, Public Health, Johns Hopkins University: Bloomberg School of Public Health MS, Applied Psychology, University of Baltimore

Research Interests: prevention of adolescent risk behaviors with a primary interest in the intersection of sexual and reproductive health behaviors, aggression and violence, and substance use and abuse. Domestic minor sex trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation of children and youth are my main project focuses.

Website/Contact: http://www.family.umaryland.edu/research-pari/ [email protected]

Larissa Gaias, PhD Current Position: Evaluation Committee

Affiliation: University of Washington, SMART Center Training: PhD, Family and Human Development, Arizona State University IES Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Washington Research Interests: educational equity, anti-bias/culturally responsive teaching practices, school-based interventions, community and political violence, developmental contexts, research-community-policy partnerships Website/Contact: [email protected]

Olivier Gaudet, B.S. Current position:

Scavenger Hunt Committee Chair

Affiliation: Department of educational psychology, Université du Québec à Montréal, Qc, Canada

Training: Ph.D. student Research Interests: peer relationships, social statuses (popularity,

acceptance), friendships, school setting Email: [email protected]

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Dale Golden Current Position:

ECPN Webpage Committee

Affiliation: University of Alaska Anchorage, Department of Psychology Training: PhD Student, Clinical-Community Psychology; Bachelor of Arts, The College of William and Mary Research Interests: trauma, culture, oppression, interpersonal

relationships, developing culturally-informed trauma intervention programs

Email: [email protected]

Scott Graupensperger

Emily Hennessy Current Position:

Liaison to SPR

International Committee

Affiliation: Post-Doctoral Research Associate, SHARP Research Lab, Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Connecticut and Editorial Assistant, Social Science & Medicine

Training: PhD, Community Research & Action, Vanderbilt University MPhil, Health Promotion, University of Bergen, Norway

Research Interests: Adolescent health promotion; substance use prevention, treatment, and recovery; quantitative methods; systematic review and meta-analytic methods

Website/Contact: SHARP Research Lab [email protected]

Megan Hicks

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Cindy Huang, Ph.D. Current position:

ECPN Webpage Committee Chair

Affiliation: Department of Counseling and Clinical Psychology, Teachers

College Columbia University Training: Ph.D., Counseling Psychology, University of Oregon

Postdoctoral training at Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Division of Prevention and Community Research

Research interests: Ethnic minority and immigrant youth; cultural influences on developmental psychopathology; parenting interventions; cultural adaptations of evidence-based parenting interventions

Website/contact: CHamP Research Lab http://www.tc.columbia.edu/faculty/cyh2110/ Email: [email protected]

Youngjo Im, Ph.D. Current Position: Program Committee

Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Department of Social Work, College of Arts and Sciences, Chicago State University Training: Postdoctoral Scholar, Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago; Ph.D., School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago; M.S., Master of Science in Analytics, University of Chicago; M.A., School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago Research interests: Child Development and Social Policy; Crime and Employment in the Transition to Adulthood; Maternal Employment and Early Childhood Development; Causal Inference in the Biomedical and Social Sciences; Data Mining and Machine Learning Techniques Website/contact: www.youngjoim.weebly.com Email: [email protected]

Tiffany Jones

Brook Kearley

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B.K. Elizabeth Kim Ph.D. Current position:

Health Disparities and

Health Equity Taskforce

Diversity Network

Committee Liaison

Affiliation: Assistant Professor, USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work, University of Southern California Training: MSW, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Ph.D. in Social Welfare, University of Washington, Seattle Postdoctoral training in Social Welfare, Berkeley Center for Prevention Research in Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley Research interests: violence prevention, protective factors, alternatives to incarceration, implementation Website/contact: https://sowkweb.usc.edu/faculty/bo-kyung-elizabeth-kim

Sun-Kyung Lee

Emily LoBraico, M.S. Current Position:

Evaluation Committee

Affiliation: College of Health and Human Development, Pennsylvania State University Training: Ph.D. Student, Human Development and Family Studies, Pennsylvania State University Predoctoral Fellow in Prevention and Methodology, Pennsylvania State University Research interests: substance use prevention, family-based preventive interventions, risk and protective factors for adolescent antisocial behaviors Website/contact: [email protected]

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Larissa Maier, Ph.D. Current positions:

ECPN Membership Committee SPR Diversity Network Committee EUSPR International Relations Officer

Affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Francisco Training: Ph.D. in Psychology, University of Zurich Research Interests: Substance use disorder prevention, addiction, cannabis, mental health, drug policy, harm reduction, drug checking, safe injection sites, digital health, VR, innovation, education, cognitive enhancement, public health, community-based participatory research, science communication Website/Contact: https://profiles.ucsf.edu/larissa.maier; Twitter @maier_larissa

Anilena Mejia

Laura Michaelson

Silvia Alves Nishioka

Amanda Nguyen Current affiliation:

SPR International committee

Affiliation: Curry School of Education, University of Virginia Training: Ph.D. in Mental Health, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health Post-doctoral training in adolescent health and prevention science, University of Virginia Research Interests: youth wellbeing, global mental health, partnership-based research, implementation science Website/Contact: https://curry.virginia.edu/amanda-nguyen [email protected]

Elise Pas Current position: Program committee

SPR Communications Committee

Previous positions: Steering committee

Student poster contest

Affiliation: Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Training: Ph.D. in School Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park Research Interests: Implementation science, preventive interventions in schools; positive behavioral supports; social, emotional, and behavioral development Website/Contact:

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committee

https://www.jhsph.edu/faculty/directory/profile/2533/elise-touris-pas [email protected]

Kathleen Anderson Ratcliff, MPA, CPS Current position:

SPR Advocacy Committee (ECPN Liaison)

Previous positions: ECPN program committee SPR Membership Communications Taskforce

Affiliation: Upstream Prevention, Inc. Training: Masters in Public Affairs, Truman School of Public Affairs, University of Missouri Research interests: Community-based participatory research, economic analysis of substance use prevention efforts, coalition-building, substance abuse prevention Website/contact: https://www.upstreamprevention.org/who-we-are.html

Kimberly Rhoades, Ph.D. Current position:

Program committee Previous positions:

Awards committee

Affiliation: Family Translational Research Group, New York

University

Training: Ph.D. in Social and Health Psychology, Stony Brook

University

Research Interests: developmental psychopathology, family

hostility and violence, gene-environment interplay, community

and military prevention

Website/Contact: http://dental.nyu.edu/faculty/cariology-

comprehensive-care/ftrg.html

[email protected]

Karen Robbie, MS, CAS Current Position:

Evaluation Committee

Affiliation: University of Maine; School of Learning and

Teaching; Prevention and Intervention concentration

Training: PhD student; RTI-Behavior CAS; Literacy Education

Research Interests: Positive Behavior Intervention and Supports

(PBIS); Preservice teacher education; Classroom management

Website/Contact: [email protected]

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Kelly Rulison, Ph.D. Current position:

Training needs assessment taskforce liaison; Training Committee liaison

Previous positions: Training committee co-chair; ECPN student poster committee

Affiliation: Department of Public Health Education, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Training: Ph.D. in Human Development, The Pennsylvania State University

Research interests: Peer relationships; social networks; substance use; diffusion of intervention effects; quantitative methodology;

Website/contact: https://phe.uncg.edu/team/kelly-rulison-ph-d/

Rachel Sadlon, MPH, CPS Current position:

Website committee

Affiliation: Center for Health and Health Care in Schools, Department of Prevention and Community Health, Milken Institute School of Public Health, the George Washington University Training: MPH, University of Connecticut Graduate School

Research interests: School health, school mental health, school-community partnerships

Website: https://publichealth.gwu.edu/departments/prevention-and-community-health/rachel-sadlon

Amanda Sisselman-Borgia, PhD, LMSW Current Positions:

Liaison to SPR Membership Communication Taskforce

Affiliation: Department of Social Work, Lehman College, City University of New York

Training: PhD in Social Welfare, University at Albany, School of Social Welfare

Research Interests: Domestic violence, trauma, at risk youth and adolescents, homelessness

Website/Contact: [email protected]

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Crystal Smith, MS Current Position: Membership Committee

Affiliation: Department of Human Development, Doctoral Student in Prevention Science, Washington State University & College of Medicine, Clinical Research Supervisor, Washington State University

Training: PhD Student, Prevention Science, Washington State University; M.S. in Family and Consumer Science, University of Idaho; B.S. in Psychology, Gonzaga University

Research Interests: Substance abuse prevention in youth and within families, poly-substance use, cannabis research, mixed method research, advanced quantitative data analytic methods

Website/Contact: http://preventionscience.wsu.edu/graduatestudents.htm [email protected]

Christine Steeger, PhD Current position: Awards Committee

Affiliation: Research Associate, Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado Boulder Training: PhD, Developmental Psychology, University of Notre Dame; Postdoctoral training in substance abuse prevention research at Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Division of Prevention and Community Research Research interests: Prevention research; youth problem behaviors; risk and protective factors; executive functioning; cannabis research; parenting and family processes; individual- and family-based interventions; intervention design & analysis; quantitative data analytic methods Email: [email protected]

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Ashwini Tiwari, PhD Current Position:

Membership Committee Chair

Affiliation: Postdoctoral Fellow, Offord Centre for Child Studies, McMaster University

Training: PhD, Public Health, School of Public Health, Georgia State University; MS Cell and Molecular Biology & Master of Public Health, Georgia State University

Research Interests: Trauma and violence exposure; health disparities, resilience, and biobehavioral functioning among at-risk and victimized populations and in response to intervention; program evaluation

Nancy Trevino-Schafer, MS, ABD Current Position: Award

Committee Chair Previous Positions: Award

Committee Chair

Affiliation: Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Texas Tech University

Training: Doctoral Candidate in Human Development and Family Studies with a minor in Cross-Cultural Studies (expected graduation May 2018); M.S. in Human Development and Family Studies at Texas Tech

Research interests: Adolescent development; adolescent risk taking, specifically teen pregnancy prevention; and prevention research with special populations, specifically foster youth and ethnic minorities; program evaluation using mixed methods

Contact: Website: http://www.depts.ttu.edu/hs/hdfs/graduate_students/trevino.php email contact: [email protected] or [email protected]

Lindsey Weiler, Ph.D.

Current Position: Program Committee

Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Department of Family Social

Science, University of Minnesota

Training: PhD Applied Developmental Science, Colorado State

University; Postdoctoral training in developmental psychobiology

and prevention science, University of Colorado-Denver

Research Interests: Prevention science, child/adolescent mental

health, youth mentoring, family systems

Website/contact:

http://www.cehd.umn.edu/fsos/directory/WeilerL.asp

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Kathleen E. Wendt, B.S.

Current Position:

Awards Committee

Affiliation: Department of Human Development and Family

Studies, Colorado State University

Training: Current graduate student in Prevention Science (M.S.)

and Applied Developmental Science (Ph.D.); National Science

Foundation Graduate Research Fellow (2018-2023); B.S. in

Human Development and Family Studies, Colorado State

University (2018)

Research Interests: Trauma, risk, and resilience in families; mindfulness and contemplative practices; family-focused interventions; mindful parenting; dynamic systems-based methods and modeling; R programming

Website/Contact: [email protected] https://twitter.com/KathleenWendt8

Elizabeth Weybright, Ph.D. Current Position:

Membership Committee

Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Department of Human Development, Washington State University Training: Predoctoral training in Prevention Science, Pennsylvania State University, Ph.D. in Recreation, Pennsylvania State University Research Interests: Prevention science, adolescent development, leisure and free time use, risk behavior, positive youth development Website: http://cahnrs.wsu.edu/hd/people/faculty/dr-elizabeth-weybright/ [email protected]

TBA Nikola Zaharakis Affiliation: REACH Institute, Department of Psychology, Arizona

State University

Training: Current NIDA T32 Postdoctoral Fellow in

Dissemination & Implementation Science; Ph.D., Applied

Developmental Psychology (2015) - Virginia Commonwealth

University; M.S. in Clinical Psychology (2011) - Virginia

Commonwealth University; B.A. in Psychology [Minor:

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Economics], City University of New York, Macaulay Honors

College (Local Campus: Hunter College; 2005)

Research Interests: Adolescent and young adult substance use; prevention/intervention science; family-focused interventions; technology-assisted intervention/mHealth; risk and protective factors for youth substance use, especially parent and family influences.

Website/Contact: [email protected]

Jingchen Zhang