ABOUT THE PRESENTERS & CONTACT INFORMATION
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Kathleen Davis, Ph.D. at kmdavis013@gmail.com
Kathleen Davis has worked in mental health, rehabilitation counseling, and higher education. Currently, she works with patients with chronic mental health and substance use disorders, and most of her patients include populations suffering from complex issues such as homelessness, HIV/AIDS, disability, immigration, and poverty. Research interests include immigration, domestic violence from both male and female perspectives, disability, the impact of inequality, global health, indigenous health, and race relations. Dr. Davis also teaches at the College of Southern Nevada. She has served on APA multi-divisional committees and presented on immigration at national conferences internationally. Dr. Davis is passionate about reducing mental health and disability-related stigmas.
Martha Hernández, Ph.D. at drmhernandezphd@gmail.com
Martha Hernández is a bilingual licensed clinical psychologist. Dr. Hernández earned her B.S. from the University of California, Los Angeles and both her M.A. and Ph.D. from the California School of Professional Psychology - Los Angeles. She is the Director of Spanish Training and Associate Director of Family Support Services at the Ronald McDonald House at Stanford (RMHS), where she provides supervision and training to graduate students providing emotional support to families with a child with a critical illness. As a daughter of first-generation immigrants, she has made it a life-long passion to ensure everyone has access to affordable, quality mental health services, while destigmatizing mental health. She has spoken regarding trauma, immigration, and the impact on children, families and couples at local and national conferences. Additionally, she has many years of experience conducting immigration evaluations in her private practice. Most recently, as part of a social justice initiative, she is currently training students on how to conduct these immigration evaluations as well, for pro-bono.
Stephanie Miodus, M.A., M.Ed. at stephanie.miodus@temple.edu
Stephanie is a fourth-year Ph.D. Candidate in School Psychology at Temple University. She received her B.A. in Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, M.A. in Forensic Psychology from John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and M.Ed. in School Psychology from Temple University. She will be starting her APPIC pre-doctoral internship at New Alternatives for Children in September. Clinically, she is interested in supporting children with autism, I/DD, and PTSD, as well as other mental health conditions. She is also interested in working with youth who have experienced trauma, and who have been involved in the child welfare/foster care and juvenile justice systems. Her main research interest is the school to prison pipeline for children with autism and alternatives to harsh disciplinary practices in schools that push children out of classrooms and into the justice system. She is currently working on her dissertation which is a mixed-methods study focused on justice-involved youths' perceptions of the mental health care they received while incarcerated, which is partially funded by a grant from SPSSI. She is involved in local, state, and national psychology leadership, including serving on the American Psychological Association Graduate Student Advocacy Coordinating Team and as the Pennsylvania Psychological Association Graduate Student Advocacy Chair, and formerly as SPSSI’s Graduate Student Committee Advocacy Chair. She is passionate about advocacy on issues related to mental health, education, immigration, disability rights, and the justice system. In her work, she seeks to uplift and amplify the voices of those who are directly impacted by these and other systems.
Audris Jimenez, M.A. at audrisj15@gmail.com
Audris Jimenez, M.A. received her B.S. in Psychology from the University of Central Florida and M.A. in Forensic Psychology from John Jay College of Criminal Justice. She is currently a Senior Coach at The Center for Alternative Sentencing and Employment Services, a youth Alternative to Incarceration program in New York City. There she works with the Reframing Opportunity, Alternatives & Resilience Program (ROAR) using a strengths-based approach to help youth ages 16-27 that are currently facing misdemeanor or felony charges. In this role, she employs evidence-based practices to administer case management services and individual weekly sessions with the youth. She works on connecting them to resources in their communities and advocates through court reports detailing the progress of the youth in the program. As part of the intake process, she conducts psychosocials, risk assessments, and mental health/substance use screenings. She is also a research assistant for the Boricua Youth Study at the New York State Psychiatric Institute-Columbia University where she conducts interviews and biospecimen collections with Puerto Rican families as well as toddler assessments. Additionally, she volunteers her time to StriveHigher, a nonprofit organization based in the Bronx which provides educational programs and support to underserved students in kindergarten through high school, as part of their virtual reading program. As a daughter of immigrant parents, she has seen first hand the difficulties immigrants and their children face while navigating an unknown country and culture. She has also seen the struggles and injustices of the legal system on youth and their families. Combining these two passions, her interests include working with youth involved in the justice system, with an ultimate goal of serving minority youth and enacting community level changes for the youth and their families.
Breeda M. McGrath, Ph.D. at BMcGrath@thechicagoschool.edu
Mary Beth Morrissey, Ph.D., J.D. at mary.morrissey@yu.edu
