Education
PhD
Virginia Commonwealth University
2010
MS
Virginia Commonwealth University
2010
BS
University of California, Los Angeles
2002
Overview
My mission is to promote the mental health of children growing up in disadvantaged environments. To that end, my research focuses on advancing our knowledge of the risk and protective factors for and interventions designed to address children’s disruptive behavior problems. In particular, my work focuses on understanding the role of parenting, self-regulation deficits, and aspects of the school environment in the development and maintenance of these problems, and on examining the impacts, scalability, and sustainability of evidence-based interventions designed to target these risk factors in childhood.