July 2022 | One Mind Psyberguide
One Mind PsyberGuide is a non-profit project that aims to help people to use technology to live a mentally healthier life. At One Mind PsyberGuide, we want to lead the field of digital mental health forward. Through rigorous evaluation of technology and promotion of scientific best practices, we seek to guide the science, practice, development, and use of digital mental health tools in various settings. We hope to improve access to mental health resources to those who lack access to traditional support, and to help people explore how technology can be used to improve wellbeing. |
April 2021 | College Student Mental Health Needs Study
Not everyone identifies as male or female, but many in society have placed gender in a polarizing scale. The purpose of this program was to give the graduate students a space to learn about breaking the binary norms of society and how to give a welcoming space to undergraduate students they mentor. This program was in collaboration with the LGBT Center at UC San Diego and is now in the program deck of both centers. |
March 2021 | UCSD Women's Center: "Breaking the Binary" Program
Not everyone identifies as male or female, but many in society have placed gender in a polarizing scale. The purpose of this program was to give the graduate students a space to learn about breaking the binary norms of society and how to give a welcoming space to undergraduate students they mentor. This program was in collaboration with the LGBT Center at UC San Diego and is now in the program deck of both centers. |
March 2021 | UCSD Women's Center: "Inter-sectional Feminism 101" Program
From the disparate impacts of the COVID-19 crisis in our communities to protests against racism and discrimination, current events have shown that we are far from achieving equality. All inequality is not created equal. An inter-sectional approach shows the way that people’s social identities can overlap, creating compounding experiences of discrimination. Hosting a conversation around the voices of those experiencing overlapping, concurrent forms of oppression to understand the depths of the inequalities and the relationships among them in any given context give a well-rounded understanding to what feminism means to different people. This program was created to introduce Inter-sectional Feminism to the graduate community at UC San Diego, and is now part of the Women's Center Programming Deck. |
July 2020 | UC San Diego Practicum: Barriers to Wellness Access at UC San Diego
As part of the MPH curriculum, students are required to do a practicum assignment with any public health site. I worked alongside members of the Mental Health in Design Lab to develop a needs assessment for the UC San Diego community. This project is still on-going and we are moving on to the creation of the surveys given out during the study. |
March 2020 | Design Public Health Project
The Healthy Campus Network challenged the Design Public Health students to create innovative interventions that can aid the student population with their stress levels and academic/social worries. Wayfinding on UC San Diego's campus has been a topic of interest amongst myself and group members. As graduate students, many of the school's wellness resources are difficult to find and not often useful to use, due to the hectic schedules we each all have beyond academia. "How might we improve UCSD student mental health services wayfinding on campus?" Having an engaging promotion across social media was our next task to complete. We knew that by having an online social platform on Wayfinding at UC San Diego can increase awareness on the places students can go to for stress relief or other self care activities. The hashtag #peacefulplacesUCSD was created on Twitter and Instagram to encourage users to post their favorite places to go to when stressed. |
November 2018 | UCR The Well: "Erasing the Stigma" Request-a-Program
The "Request-a-Programs" at UC Riverside were educational workshops given by student-lead groups at The Well, UC Riverside's wellness center. Among the selection of programs, there was a lack of programming that commonly surrounds stigmatization of mental illness. I spearheaded the creation of this program with the intent of sharing this to our engineering and natural sciences branches of UC Riverside, as they were the population that least utilized the wellness center. The purpose of this presentation is to understand the discrimination faced by people with mental health issues/disorders and to inspire people to work together to break down the stigma that surrounds mental illness. This program is now part of the permanent series that the wellness center offers. |