RISE Initiative
Our students
RISE students
Our graduate students from both master’s and PhD programs throughout ASU represent the cutting-edge of resilience research.
Stephanie Abril
PhD Counseling
LGBTQIA+ issues, resilience, treatment resistant depression, sex therapy.
Natalie Barron
MS Psychology
I'm interested in observing the relationship between the dimensions of social and health psychology, and am observing this association from a cross-cultural perspective for my first-year project.
Fahimah Bbosa
MS Psychology
I want my research to examine developmental, cultural, and clinical contexts of psychology, including language and memory, athlete and immigrant mental health, trauma and privilege, and how sociocultural stressors shape resilience, learning, and identity across the lifespan.
Rhegan Benicke
MS Psychology
My research focuses on the interaction of the legal system with the mind and behavior, aiming to understand how psychosocial factors influence crime and to identify what action can be taken to achieve better outcomes.
Bailee Blankemeier
PhD Sociology
I study the intersection of labor and health. Specifically, I explore how working life impacts eating and social habits.
Lainey Bowe
MS Psychology
I am broadly interested in autistic communication, autistic burnout, and their relationship to mental well-being, including how differences in communication styles may shape social interaction and long-term outcomes.
Ana Briones
PhD Family and Human Development
Latinx communities, school systems, education, language
Kylie Burke
PhD Family and Human Development
How social relationships and processes support positive coping skills and resilience for children experiencing stress (e.g. hospitalization, illness, foster care, etc.) in order to reduce negative outcomes.
Qiyue Cai
PhD Clinical Psychology
My research integrates prevention science, developmental psychopathology, and implementation science to better understand individual, family, and systemic contributors to family-based intervention success, with the goal of answering: What works best, for whom, and in what context?
Annalise Calleja
MS Psychology
I am particularly interested in studying racial disparities within the criminal justice system, as well as how base rate neglect influences the decisions of forensic psychology professionals.
Jenit Chadha
MS Psychology
My research interest lies in exploring how interpersonal relationships impact health and well-being, including physical health habits, emotional well-being (like self-esteem and anxiety), and life satisfaction.
Joseph Chirillo
MS Psychology
My research interests focus on positive psychology. More specifically, I am interested in exploring factors influencing well-being, mindfulness, and emotions, as well as examining interventions designed to enhance or promote well-being, mindfulness, and emotional health.
Katerina Christhilf
PhD Psychology
I’m interested in reading comprehension; supporting students with varying skills, interests, and backgrounds; educational technology; natural language processing; and artificial intelligence.
Amanda Alexis Payton Cisneros
MS Psychology
My interests are exploring emotion regulation and cultural influences, focusing on emotional suppression in machismo culture and its consequences. I’m also interested in how mental health stigma deters people from seeking psychological support and treatment.
Kylee Cole
MS Psychology
My research interests are in emotional regulation within couples and also those who deal with substance abuse.
Stephanie Cottam
PhD Family and Human Development
My current research interests are centered in mindfulness, parenting and supporting school-parent partnerships in an effort to support child development and positive outcomes.
Jarrod L.A. Cruz
MS Computer Science
I have background with NIHS and datamining. I'd like to explore effects of social media on community and individual resilience.
Ann Marie Daltilio
MS Psychology
My research interests include intimacy, affectionate touch, and resilience in relationships, with a particular focus on trauma-affected and dissociative populations. I also take an interdisciplinary approach, incorporating data science techniques and education research on learning outcomes, while engaging with broader questions about clinical mental disorders and relational health.
Savina Delfin-Lara
MS Psychology
My research focuses on emotion and culture, particularly cognitive and affective flexibility in artistic processes, the role of art and color in emotional regulation, and cognitive flexibility in neurological disorders.
Jessie Evers
MA Counseling
I am interested in researching romantic relationships, specifically looking into relational commitment and how that affects relationship dynamics. Furthermore, I am interested in PTSD, particularly in first responders (i.e., police & firefighters).
Lucia Feldman
PhD Psychology
My research interests include linguistic analysis using large language models as well as microbiome and genomics analysis using bioinformatics pipelines. I am interested in cognition and perception and how these affect our perspectives shaping our reality and influencing our scientific thinking abilities.
Jennifer Figueroa
PhD Developmental Psychology
Predictors and consequences of close relationships during adolescence and young adulthood, particularly among Hispanic and Latino/a/x populations
Chiara Fusciello
PhD Clinical Psychology
Gene environment interaction, mental health outcomes, parent-child relationship quality, social support, coping, risk resilience
Chrystal Vazquez Garcia
MS Psychology
The biopsychological factors that shape behavior, particularly how cognitive and emotional processes influence behavior and contribute to the development of psychopathology.
RISE undergraduate students
| Diana Espinoza Aguilar | Psychology and sociology |
| Neha Francis | Biological Sciences |
| Hannah Huynh | Psychology |
| Arasely Villalobos Lopez | Psychology |
| Will Manley | English |
| Allison Miller | Psychology and sociology |
| Haley Patel | Medical microbiology and psychology |
| Aniyah Roberson | Psychology |
| Melanie Perez Saenz | Psychology and Sociology (minor) |
| Annielaura Shafer | Psychology |
| September Spotleson | Psychology |
| Christina Stewart | Psychology & Family and Human Development |