Meet Our Team
Ijeoma Opara
Our Director
Ijeoma Opara, PhD, MSW, MPH., studies strengths-based approaches to sexual health and youth substance use prevention for youth of color, strengths-based strategies for Black girls, and community-based participatory research.
Leadership
Research Consultants
Postdoctoral fellows
PhD students
Master Students
lab members
Research consultant
Alumni Summer Interns
- Kathy Tran, UT Southwestern Medical School
- Layla DeCosta, Claflin University
- Austin Schacht, Hampshire College
- Milani Weerakoon, Trinity University
Alumni lab members
- Kennedy Anderson
- Dr. Chioma Ogechi Egekeze
- Moiyattu Banya-Keister, MSW
- Mirriam Mananah, MPH
- Shreya Jadhav, MPH
- Alyssa Makena
- Jasmin Brooks Stephens, MA PhD
- Cora Gabriel, MPH
- Sydney Hussett-Richardson, MPH
- Taylor Choe, MPH
- Ann Abraham, MPH, MSW
- Christine Pham,MD student at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
- Courtnae Alves, MPH
- Deanna Parisi, MPH
- Kristina Cross, MSW
- Funcia Jean-Louis
- Dr. Sandy Cayo
- Olivia Francis, MPH
- Hailey Valles, MPH
- Tynisha D. George, MPH, MSW
- Ashley Lizarraga, MSW
- Maame Araba Assan, MPH, CHES
- Petty Tineo, PhD
- Livia Lazarro, MPH
- Dharmi Desai, MPH, MBBS
- Ebony Laboy, MPH
- Morgan Brinker, Current MD Student Yale School of Medicine
- Carolanne Clark, MSW
- Chavonn Duncan, MSW
- Emmanuella Asabor, MD, PhD
- Beatriz Duran-Becerra, MPH
- Mirriam Mananah, MPH
- Olivia Francis, MPH
- Hailey Valles, MPH
- Shreya Jadhav, MPH
- Kennedy Anderson, BA
- Ann Abraham, MPH, MSW
- Jasmin Brooks Stephens, PhD
- Sydney Hussett-Richardson, MPH
- Taylor Choe, MPH
- Christine Pham, MPH
- Courtnae Alves, MPH
- Deanna Parisi, MPH
- Kristina Cross, MSW
- Funcia Jean-Louis, BA
- Tynisha D. George, MPH, MSW
- Maame Araba Assan, MPH, CHES
- Petty Tineo, PhD
- Livia Lazarro, MPH
- Dharmi Desai, MPH, MBBS
- Carolanne Clark, MSW
- Chavonn Duncan, MSW
Alumni Youth Advisory Board Members
- Ayden Ramos-Schneider, PPP Youth Advisory Board 2020-2022
- Marley Dias, DGP Youth Advisory Board 2021-2022
- Shekinah Glory Peter Mba, DGP Youth Advisory Board 2021-2022
- Natalya Charlemagne, DGP Youth Advisory Board 2021-2022
- Kassidy Nola Scott, DGP Youth Advisory Board 2021-2023
- Kailyn Dixon, DGP Youth Advisory Board 2023-2024
- Olivia Raymond, DGP Youth Advisory Board 2022-2024
- Rachel Oladepo, DGP Youth Advisory Board 2022-2024