Collaborator

Jennifer is a Psychological and Brain Sciences doctoral candidate at Washington University in St. Louis. She has master’s degrees in Psychological and Brain Sciences (Washington University in St. Louis ’22), Applied Positive Psychology (University of Pennsylvania ‘18), and Education (University of Pennsylvania ‘15). Prior to her doctoral program, she worked as a research coordinator at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. She was also a K-8 teacher with Teach for America and a school administrator before graduate school. Her primary research interests include interventions for bias regulation, emotion regulation, intergroup relations, and well-being.

JaNiene is a Social Work PhD candidate at the Brown School at WashU. She received a BA in Health and Human performance from the University of Memphis and a Master's degree in Health Education from Texas A&M University. She works closely with the Emotion and Relationships lab, using EMA studies to examine risk and protective factors influencing mental health and substance abuse among Black emerging adults and college students. Her other research interests broadly include mental health and substance use, intervention research, and digital health.