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COR
Alumni
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Gwen Agustin:
Gwen graduated from
SFSU in May 2002 with BA in Psychology. |
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Rebecca Garcia:
Rebecca graduated
from SFSU in May 2002 with a BA in Psychology. Her research
while in our program was related to barriers of healthcare for
low income immigrant children and their families. Her faculty
mentor was Dr. Grace Yoo from the Asian American Studies
Department. During the summer of her first year of program, she
interned at University of Michigan working on the healthcare
issues for low income families.
Currently, she is in her second year of her PhD studies in
Education at University of Georgia. |
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Sandra Larios:
Sandra graduated from
SFSU in May 2002 with a BA in Psychology. Her research while in
our program was related to locomotor development in infants and
it's relationship to psychological variables. Her faculty
mentors were Dr. David Anderson from Kinesiology
and Dr. Joseph Campos
from University of California, Berkeley. During the summer of
her first year with our program, she interned at University of
Michigan working on the effects on cultural identity on the
formation of transitional social networks.
Currently, she is in her second year of her PhD studies in
Clinical Psychology at the UCSD/SDSU Joint Doctoral Program
working in obesity intervention looking at both the Micro and
Macro influences on the development of obesity in Latino
children. |
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Maria Rivas:
Maria graduated from
SFSU in May 2002 with a BA in Psychology. |
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Derrick Laurel:
Derrick graduated
from SFSU in May 2003 in BA in Psychology. |
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Har Tan:
Har graduated from
SFSU in May 2003 in BA Psychology. While in our program, she
worked closely with Dr. Alvin Alvarez from the Counseling
Department. Her research was on Burmese American racial identity
and mental health. During the summer of her first year with us,
she interned at the National Institute of Mental Health under
the direction of Dr. Wayne Drevets and worked on
Neuromorphometric assessment of human Subiculum using high
resolution MRI. She was accepted to SFSU master's program in
research psychology.
Currently, she works
at the Asian and Pacific Islander Wellness Center in San
Francisco as a Burmese client advocate. |
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Marco Hidalgo: Marco is a senior undergraduate psychology student who
has been a COR member since Fall 2002. His research investigates
risk and protective factors influencing mental health and HIV-risk
within various lesbian, gay, bisexual & transgender (LGBT)
communities. Specifically, Marco is interested in how the quality
of relationships that Latino gay and bisexual men have with their
fathers affects their mental health, and HIV-risk behavior. His
research has also examined the role that LGBT-related family
support/acceptance plays as a factor of resiliency against racial-
and LGBT-related discrimination among African-American and Latino
youth. In Fall 2004, Marco will be starting his first year in
the Clinical-Community Program at De Paul University. He has
also been accepted into the Community and Prevention Research
Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Dr. Rafael Diaz
(College of Ethnic Studies) has been Marco's primary advisor for the
extent of his involvement with the COR program. |
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Jennifer Ibardolaza:
Jennifer is a second year COR Scholar and psychology honors student.
Through a mixed-methods approach, she is interested in examining the
influence of acculturation and other contextual influences, (i.e.,
school, neighborhood, and family) on the healthy development
adolescents from immigrant backgrounds. With Dr. Linda Juang as her
primary COR mentor; they investigate how generational gaps between
parent and child may play a role in the psychological well-being of
Chinese -American adolescents. She has presented several papers and
posters from this project, some of which culminated in research
competition awards. Jennifer is also the project manager of the
Substance Abuse Across Cultures (SUAC) Study with Dr. M. Dawn
Terrell. The project explores the role of acculturation, gender, and
coping mechanisms in differential patterns of alcohol use among
ethnically diverse college students. She spent her summer as a
research intern for Leadership Alliance program at NYU where she
will also start a Doctoral Program in Community Psychology in fall
2004. |
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Marla Stewart: Marla is an undergraduate psychology student who
is also minoring in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Studies. As
a second-year COR student, last year her honors thesis was an
exploratory study on the relevancy of sex education among Black
lesbian and bisexual young women. With her knowledge of ethnographic
and qualitative methodology, her studies of people with marginalized
identities are reflected by feminist theories of intersectionality
with a strong commitment to race, gender and sexuality. With her
study, she hopes to help researchers and educators implement
programs that are helpful for these young women and provide more
sources for these young women to promote and protect their sexuality
and health. She has presented many papers and presentations at
numerous conferences, including the American Sociological
Association, and has been accepted to CUNY Brooklyn College where
she will be studying Sociology with an emphasis on race,
gender, and sexuality. Currently, she is working with Dr. Jessica
Fields on peer sex educators and their involvement in the learning
of their peers and other youth. |
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Cathryn Fabian: Cathryn is a
senior double majoring in psychology and social work. Since the Fall
of 2002, she has been working with Dr. Linda Juang of the Psychology
Department on "Chopsticks and Forks," a three-year longitudinal
study of acculturation, family relationships, and psychological
well-being among Chinese American adolescents. Her current research
examines the relationships between ethnic identity, psychological
empowerment, community activism, and psychological well-being among
Asian American college students. She is primarily interested in how
ethnic identity development predicts sense of an individual's
sociopolitical context as a member of a minority group, and how that
in turn leads to a greater likelihood of engaging in behaviors which
actively promote the social statues of their ethnic or racial group.
She had also conducted research on the effects of racial
discrimination on the mental health of Asian Americans. Cathryn
completed her summer research internship with the McNair/SROP
Scholars Program at Michigan State University and will be
matriculating in to the Joint Doctoral Program in Social Work and
Organizational Psychology at the University of Michigan in the Fall
of 2004. |
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Mario
Aceves: Mario is
currently completing his final semester before graduating from San
Francisco State University (SFSU). Throughout his research career
at SFSU, Mario has engaged in a variety of project topics ranging
from adolescent violent victimization and rumination, to family
interactions and divorce. Currently, he is investigating how
experiences of victimization during adolescence affect college
students’ academic performance. Mario plans to obtain a Ph. D in
Developmental Psychology, while also expanding into the realms of
Social/Personality and Clinical Psychology. His future work in
graduate school will be centered in three main areas including how
victimization relates to the development of institutional trust,
ADHD and aggression, and multiracial interactions. Mario will be
attending the University of California, Berkeley in the fall of
2004. |
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