OUR PEOPLE
TEAM
Amanda Ruzicka, MA
Deputy Director | Senior Research Associate
Luciana Assini-Meytin, PhD
Deputy Director | Assistant Scientist
Rebecca Fix, PhD
Assistant Professor
Ericka Muempfer, MA
Research Associate
Aengus Ó Dochartaigh
Outreach Director
Joanna Schofield
Associate Director of Development
Abigail R. DeSilva, MSW
Senior Research Program Coordinator
Christina Knepper, LCSW-C
Research Coordinator / Interventionist
Yi Sun, MPH, MS
Research Data Manager
Ian McPhail, PhD, CPsych
Research Associate
Hunyee McCollum
Research and Communications Assistant
AFFILIATED FACULTY
Scott Hubbard
Senior Research Associate
Ryan Shields, PhD
Associate Professor, School of Criminology & Justice Studies, UMass Lowell
SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD
Our Scientific Advisory Board members help identify knowledge gaps and prioritize areas where Center resources can achieve the greatest impact. We are so grateful for their service.
- Karen Baker, director of the National Violence Resource Center
- Esther Deblinger, co-director, Child Abuse Research Education and Service Institute
- David Finkelhor, director, Crimes Against Children Research Center
- Andrea Gielen, former director, Center for Injury Research and Policy
- James A. Mercy, acting director, Division of Violence Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention
- Michael Seto, director of Forensic Rehabilitation Research, Royal Ottawa Health Care Group