Tina Jiwatram-Negrón, PhDPrincipal Investigator / Lab DirectorDr. Tina Jiwatram-Negrón is an assistant professor in the School of Social Work and faculty of the Office of Gender-Based Violence in the Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions at Arizona State University. She is also a Faculty Research Affiliate at the Southwest Interdisciplinary Research Center and Global Center for Applied Health Research at ASU. Dr. Jiwatram-Negrón earned her PhD in social work from Columbia University, and was a National Institutes of Drug Abuse (NIDA)-funded T32 predoctoral fellow through the Behavioral Sciences Training Program in New York. Prior to joining the faculty at ASU, Dr. Jiwatram-Negrón also completed a postdoctoral research training fellowship at the University of Michigan.
Dr. Jiwatram-Negrón’s research focuses on examining gender-based violence and the constellation of health and mental health risks associated with GBV among socially and economically marginalized populations, including women living with HIV and women who misuse substances and/or engage in sex work. In partnership with community-based organizations domestically and internationally, Dr. Jiwatram-Negrón also aims to reduce and eliminate disparities through the co-development of trauma-informed interventions to identify and address GBV and co-occurring risks. Prior to becoming an academic, Dr. Jiwatram-Negrón worked at multiple community mental health and domestic violence non-profit organizations, and has served on the Board of Directors for several non-profit organizations as well as consulted for UNTF. pronouns: she/her/hers |
Melissa Meinhart, PhDData and Analytics Manager
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Sabeen Ahmed, LCSWVisiting Scholar
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Malorie Ward, BSGraduate Research AssistantMalorie R. Ward is a MSW student and Graduate Research Assistant at Arizona State University in the Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions. She is interested in examining health and economic disparities associated with gender-based violence and survival sex trading. Malorie completed her bachelor’s degree in Public and Community Health and has 5+ years experience providing trauma-informed care in various settings, domestically and internationally, to survivors of sex trafficking and intimate partner violence (including diverse, substance-involved, LGBTQIA+, and disabled groups).
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Leya Reyes, BSGraduate Research AssistantLeya Reyes is an MSW student and Graduate Research Assistant at Arizona State University in Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions. She has experience providing trauma-informed care for unhoused women and families, K-8 students in a school social work setting, and unaccompanied migrant children under threat of deportation. She is interested in culturally-significant research interventions that reduce harm and promote healing for historically marginalized groups.
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Lynn Michalopoulos, PhDLab AffiliateLynn Murphy Michalopoulos is co-founder of the Moving Well Project, colocated in the U.S. and Zambia. She is also an Associate Professor at the University of Maryland School of Social Work. She began her work with trauma-affected populations in Zambia almost 10 years ago, and developed the Global Post Trauma Symptom-Item Bank, in partnership with Johns Hopkins University, which has been validated in multiple non-Western contexts. Building off of her clinical experience working with trauma survivors, Dr. Michalopoulous has research expertise in examining trauma and associated risks among migrant populations. Prior to founding the Moving Well Project, Dr. Michalopoulous was an Associate Professor at Columbia University and served as a Resilience Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor at USAID. She has a Bachelors in Psychology from Williams College, a Masters from the University of Chicago in Social Service Administration and a PhD from the University of Maryland in Social Work.
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Iris Cardenas, PhDLab AffiliateIris Cardenas is an Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland School of Social Work. Her research focuses on intimate partner violence in the Latinx community. She is interested in survivors’ help-seeking behaviors and the provision of culturally concordant services. Dr. Cardenas also conducts research related to cross-cultural scale adaptation & psychometric properties validation. She has presented her work nationally and internationally. She was a contracted researcher for the National Institute of Justice, U.S. Department of Justice. Dr. Cardenas is a licensed social worker and completed her doctoral training at the School of Social Work at Rutgers University where she also obtained a Master of Social Work.
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Kelly Cue Davis, PhDLab AffiliateKelly Cue Davis, PhD, is an associate professor and Senior Director of Research Education and Training at Arizona State University’s Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation as well as a licensed clinical psychologist. For over 25 years, Dr. Davis has researched the effects of alcohol and drug consumption on sexual violence victimization and perpetration. She has served as Principal Investigator or Co-Investigator on numerous research projects related to sexual violence and sexual health, with grant funding from the National Institutes of Health and Department of Defense totaling over $30 million, including the prestigious NIH MERIT award. Her funded projects include an evaluation of Safer Bars, a sexual violence bystander intervention prevention program implemented within alcohol serving establishments, as well as a laboratory-based study of men’s alcohol-facilitated coercive condom use resistance. Dr. Davis has presented her work on sexual violence nationally and internationally, has served as an expert witness for alcohol-involved sexual assault criminal court cases, and is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association. Her work has targeted sexual assault assessment, response, prevention, and policy in both K-12 and higher education institutions as well the military and legal system, and her research on “stealthing” (i.e., nonconsensual condom removal) has been cited in legislative efforts across the country.
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Julia Hammett, PhDLab AffiliateJulia Hammett is a postdoctoral fellow in the Edson School of Nursing and Health Innovation at Arizona State University. She holds a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles and Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees from San Diego State University. Dr. Hammett's research focuses on risk factors of intimate partner aggression among couples from low-income communities. She is particularly interested in sociocultural and economic predictors, such as financial strain and stress, as well psychological factors, such as emotion regulation, and the effect of alcohol on these issues.
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InCommunity Lab Graduates
Stelle Jacobson, BSUndergraduate Research Assistant
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Qihao Zhan, MSWGraduate Research Assistant
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