Our team welcomes, values, and accommodates diversity — bringing heterogeneous but complementary perspectives to our scientific inquiry, including that of people with lived experience. We hope that our work will inform the development of new, and optimization of existing, prevention and intervention efforts for diverse populations at increased risk for problematic substance use, substance-related harms, and poor mental health.

Principal Investigator and Director:
Rachel A. Hoopsick, PhD, MS, MPH, MCHES (she/her) Assistant Professor, Department of Kinesiology and Community Health hoopsick@illinois.edu
Graduate Research Assistants:
Benjamin Campbell, MA (he/him) Community Health PhD Student Joined team in Fall 2022
Sylvia Las (she/her) MPH Candidate Joined team in Summer 2022
Enky Mhlongo (she/her) MPH Candidate Joined team in Summer 2022
Undergraduate Research Assistants:
Daniela Hernandez (she/her) Senior, Community Health Joined team in Fall 2022
Rachel Sun (she/her) Sophomore, Clinical/Community Psychology & Statistics Joined team in Summer 2022
Volunteers:
Sophia Libman (she/her) High School Junior, Academy High Joined team in Summer 2022

We would also like to thank our previous team members for their contributions: 

• Jaqueline (Jackie) Carrillo (she/her), BS – Community Health, 2022
• Nivin George (he/him), BS – Community Health, 2022
• Michael Knipp (he/him), BS – Kinesiology, 2024
• Susana (Susie) Lopez (she/her), BS – Human Development & Family Studies, 2022
• Wendy Marinez (she/her), BS – Community Health, 2022
• Ameera Samad (she/her), MPH, 2022
• Yasmeen Scott (she/her), BS – Community Health, 2022
• Ja’Resa Stockdale (she/her), BS – Community Health, 2022
• Eshana Vora (she/her), BS – Community Health & Psychology, 2022