Current Graduate Students
Aalaa Alshareef
Pronouns: she, her
PhD, Couple and Family Therapy | alsha085@umn.edu
Research interests:
Families and health | Intrapersonal and intrapsychic dynamics of families who are dealing with chronic health conditions
Kaleb Burningham
Pronouns: they, them, he, him
PhD, Couple and Family Therapy | burni015@umn.edu
Research interests:
Queer youth and young adults | Mentoring | Nonparental adult support | Parent-child relationships | Religion
Connor Callahan
Pronouns: he, him
PhD, Couple and Family Therapy | calla236@umn.edu
Research interests:
Sexual and gender identity development in sexual and gender minority (SGM) youth | Developing systemic interventions to support the health and well-being of SGM youth and their families
Kenzi Callaway
MA/PhD, Family Science | calla487@umn.edu
Research interests:
Intervention and prevention for LGBTQ families and youth
Athena Chan
Pronouns: she, her
PhD, Family Science | chan1850@umn.edu
Research interests:
intergenerational relationships | Family dynamics | Family resilience
Ana Mireya Diaz
Pronouns: she, her
PhD, Family Science | diaz0362@umn.edu
Research interests:
Supports for youth in foster care/out-of-home care | Experiences and supports for parents with mental health diagnoses/conditions | Kinship caregivers
Zamzam Dini
Pronouns: she, her
PhD, Couple and Family Therapy | dini0008@umn.edu
Research interests:
Working with immigrant and refugee populations in relation to trauma | The mental health of immigrant/refugee populations who have experienced war, migration, and familial separation | Interfaith couples with a Muslim partner and identifying unique factors that impact Muslim couples
Nusroon Fatiha
Pronouns: she, her
MA, Prevention Science | fatih001@umn.edu
Research interests:
Parent child relationships | Family health | Behavioral health | Disease prevention | Health intervention
Janette Driscoll
Pronouns: she, her
PhD, Couple and Family Therapy | drisc262@umn.edu
Research interests:
Families with teens (therapy) | Teens with trauma (School/home connection)
Pamela Dysart
Pronouns: she, her
PhD, Family Science | dysar013@umn.edu
Research interests:
Transnational resettlement | Intergenerational gaps for adolescents | Grief, loss, bereavement practices across cultures
Shauna Fenske
Pronouns: she, her
PhD, Couple and Family Therapy | fensk049@umn.edu
Research interests:
Relational Health | Couples | Decision-making | Spirituality
Aditi Gupta
Pronouns: she, her
MA | gupta592@umn.edu
Research interests:
Military Families | Prevention and intervention studies
Erin Guyette
Pronouns: she, her
PhD, Couple and Family Therapy | guyet007@umn.edu
Research interests:
Families in transition such as divorce or separation | Improving a family’s separation process and involving more mental health professionals in the family court system
Alex Hanson
Pronouns: she, her
MA/PhD, Family Science
| lessa030@umn.edu
Research interests:
Prevention of and parental influences on the development of adolescent and adult antisocial behaviors
Kay He
Pronouns: she, her
PhD, Family Science | he000330@umn.edu
Research interests:
Children's mental health | Parent-Child interaction | Supports, Emotions
Malina Her
Pronouns: she, her
PhD, Family Science | her00122@umn.edu
Research interests:
Cultural socialization and ethnic identity | Parenting
Umme Kawser
Pronouns: she, her
PhD, Couple and Family Therapy | kawse001@umn.edu
Research interests:
Relational decision-making and trauma | Developing and evaluating trauma informed program for couples | EMDR techniques into systemic interventions to support families and couples enduring trauma due to divorce
Lila Khan
Pronouns: she, her
MA/PhD, Family Science | khan0696@umn.edu
Research interests:
Diversity in families | disability in families | socioeconomic disparities in families
Samantha LeBouef
Pronouns: she, her
PhD, Family Science | lebou006@umn.edu
Research interests:
Family relationships and technology | Emerging adults | First-generation college students
Lillie Lee
Pronouns: she, her, hers
MA | leex9102@umn.edu
Research interests:
| Mental health | Clinical work
Nancy Lo
PhD, Family Science | loxxx078@umn.edu
Research interests:
Acculturation | Cultural identity development | Multiracial/generational immigrant families
Doneila McIntosh
Pronouns: she, her
PhD, Couple and Family Therapy | jacks413@umn.edu
Research interests:
African American Families/Communities | Thanatology (Ambiguous Loss, Disenfranchised Grief) | Health Disparities | Spirituality
Quin Morrow
Pronouns: they, them, theirs
PhD, Family Science | morro214@umn.edu
Research interests:
LGBT health and resiliency
Kadija Mussa
| mussa007@umn.edu
Research interests:
Somayeh Naderi
Pronouns: she, her
PhD, Family Science | nader018@umn.edu
Research interests:
Measuring and assessing the health and well-being of sexual and gender minority (SGM) youth and their families
Cante Nakanishi
Pronouns: she, her
PhD, Couple and Family Therapy | naka0144@umn.edu
Research interests:
Intercultural couples | Historical trauma
Eunyoung Park
Pronouns: she, her
PhD, Family Science | park2784@umn.edu
Research interests:
Parenting | Family relationships and technology
Miguel Quinones
Pronouns: he, him
PhD, Family Science | quino038@umn.edu
Research interests:
Latino family well-being | How Latino families’ socioeconomic situations affect their financial practices
Gabriela Ramos
Pronouns: she, her
MA | ramos393@umn.edu
Research interests:
Gender/Race | Culture | Social movements/racism/Neocolonialism
Roun Said
Pronouns: she, her
PhD, Family Science | rsaid@umn.edu
Research interests:
Intergenerational trauma | Parenting | Refugee/immigrant families
Pubudu Senaratne
Pronouns: she, her
MA/PhD, Family Science
| senar018@umn.edu
Research interests:
Inter-generational trauma among immigrant families affected by torture
Jessica Simpson
Pronouns: she, her
PhD, Couple and Family Therapy | simps537@umn.edu
Research interests:
American Indian families impacted by trauma (e.g. separation, foster care, adoption) | Factors that contribute to the alleviation of trauma symptoms following family separation | Stress theories and risk and protective factors that help explain why some American Indian families report fewer trauma symptoms
Soyoul Song
Pronouns: she, her
PhD, Couple and Family Therapy | songx282@umn.edu
Research interests:
Acculturation | Multicultural context in families | immigrant families and mental health | Diversity in immigrant families
Olivia Tomfohrde
Pronouns: she, her
PhD, Family Science | tomfo016@umn.edu
Research interests:
Trauma in children | Children in the foster care system | Interventions for trauma in children
Kathy Vasquez
Pronouns: she, her, hers
PhD, Family Science | vasqu257@umn.edu
Research interests:
Experiences and trajectories of marginalized student populations | Resiliency and persistence in underserved college student groups
Guanyu Wang
Pronouns: she, her, hers
PhD, Couple and Family Therapy | wan00523@umn.edu
Research interests:
Cultural and contextual impact on family dynamics and parenting | Children's emotional and social development | Father-child relationships | Women's mental health | Mindfulness and acceptance-based intervention
Reo Wang
Pronouns: she, her
PhD, Family Science | wan00313@umn.edu
Research interests:
Adolescent moral development | How young people make moral judgments about both prototypical and ambivalent homophobic behaviors and languages
Judy Williams
Pronouns: she, her
PhD, Family Science | will3456@umn.edu
Research interests:
Policy/Family Sevices | Child Welfare | Child/Parent: Safety/risk outcomes for child
Ting Xu
Pronouns: she, her
PhD, Family Science | xu000940@umn.edu
Research interests:
Technology and Family Relationship | Statistics | Children's development
Hanna Yu
Pronouns: she, her
MA/PhD, Family Science | you00042@umn.edu
Research interests:
Finance and family relationship | Finance and couple relationship | Finance and young/older adult development
Cahya Yunizar
Pronouns: she, her
PhD, Family Science | yuniz001@umn.edu
Research interests:
Cross-culture research on family dynamics and values | Community-based interventions to promote family well-being in a multicultural context
Haoran Zhou
Pronouns: he, his
PhD, Couple and Family Therapy | zhou1832@umn.edu
Research interests:
Trauma intervention and Prevention | Adolescent resilience together with their family | Children development within adverse environmental context