Karen is the associate medical director and chief of mental health & counseling services at MIT Medical. She is a clinical psychologist who specializes in trauma, multicultural psychotherapy, and bereavement. She enjoys presenting, writing and consulting on a variety of mental health topics, particularly collegiate mental health, the impact of oppression on psychological wellbeing as…

Juanita Limas, Ph.D. is a Senior Advisor in Molecular Pharmacology at Eli Lilly & Company. A first-generation Mexican-American, she graduated with a B.S. in Biochemistry from the University of Iowa, a MS from Barry University, and a PhD from UNC-Chapel Hill. Her experience during her PhD prompted her to write a paper on mental health…

Keisha Hardeman is a postdoctoral associate in cancer biology at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). She has a Bachelor’s degree in molecular and cell biology (TAMU) and a PhD in cancer biology (Vanderbilt University). She is also board certified as medical laboratory scientist (MLS) and molecular biologist (MB) with the American Society…

Katey is an Assistant Professor in the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University. Trained as a discipline-based education researcher, she uses qualitative and quantitative methodologies to examine the relationship between student mental health and cognitive and affective learning. Cooper received the NSF CAREER award to investigate the relationship between undergraduate/graduate research and depression…