| | Building a faculty during a pandemic
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While the pandemic-induced shutdown in March 2020 disrupted academia, the Gevirtz School refused to let logistical difficulties stop us from working towards our strategic plan. Since 2020, we have added 6 new members to our faculty: meet Jon Goodwin, Miriam Thompson, and Arlene Ortiz in Counseling, Clinical and School Psychology and Hui-Ling Malone, Antar Tichavakunda, and Mayra Puente in Education.
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EDUCATION, DIVERSITY AND DEMOCRACY
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The community focus behind CDPH’s LBTQ Health Equity Initiative
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Alison Cerezo leads a team of staff and graduate researchers working on the California Department of Public Health’s LBTQ Health Equity Initiative, aiming to improve equitable access to healthcare for LBTQ women, trans men, and nonbinary people, particularly youth, the elderly, and BIPOC community members.
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Karen Nylund-Gibson awarded major grants to rethink mixture modeling workshops
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With support from two new grants from The National Science Foundation and the Insitute of Education Sciences, Professor Karen Nylund-Gibson is rethinking how to train scholars in mixture modeling through an equity lens.
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A grant to the Healing Space underscores community need for racially-informed therapy
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The Santa Barbara Foundation has awarded a $60,000, two-year behavioral health grant to the Healing Space--a unique therapy training clinic dedicated to providing racially-informed behavioral health services to Black community members impacted by racial trauma--to expand its overall reach and capacity.
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| Project TEAMS’ Shemiyah Holland supports students’ mental health
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First-year doctoral student Shemyiah Holland is one of three School Psychology doctoral students selected for Project TEAMS. Holland and her cohort will produce new research to address culturally, linguistically, and racially diverse students’ mental health challenges, particularly for students with disabilities and emotional and behavioral disorders.
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TEP alumna Elsy Mora named 2022 Distinguished New Educator
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Alumna Elsy Mora (TEP, SST, M.Ed., ’21), a La Colina Junior High math teacher and a former PEAC Community Fellow, discusses her teaching and her time at the Gevirtz School on an episode of "Schooled Radio."
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Audrey Harkness
Harkness (CCSP, Ph.D., ’16) co-wrote Transdiagnostic LGBTQ-Affirmative Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy.
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Verónica Ramos
Ramos (TEP, MST, M.Ed., ‘2011) has been recognized for leadership by Rotary Club of Santa Barbara.
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Alma Boutin-Martinez and Lorna Gonzalez
Boutin-Martinez (Education, Ph.D., ’14) and Gonzalez (Education, Ph.D., ’18) co-authored a chapter on online learning evaluation and assessment models in the Handbook of Online Learning.
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| "Fast & Curious: ED Talks" Return
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Free at the Faulkner Gallery, Santa Barbara Public Library
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This evening event will feature three faculty members, two graduate students, and one postdoctoral fellow giving short talks under 8 minutes about their work in shaping education and applied psychology. For this edition of the series, all the presentations will discuss ways the Gevirtz School is centering its research and service on policy.
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| The Gevirtz School's Mission
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The Gevirtz School will be a leader in addressing pressing social justice issues through interdisciplinary collaborations grounded in educational and applied psychological research, teaching, and service.
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