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) | ![]() |
Graduate Research Assistants: | |
Benjamin Campbell, MA (he/him) | ![]() |
Sylvia Las (she/her) | ![]() |
Enky Mhlongo (she/her) | ![]() |
Undergraduate Research Assistants: | |
Daniela Hernandez (she/her) | ![]() |
Rachel Sun (she/her) | ![]() |
Volunteers: | |
Sophia Libman (she/her) | ![]() |
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