Current Research Projects

This study, conducted in collaboration with Leslie Guzman, a doctoral student in the Counseling Psychology program at New Mexico State University, aims to develop and test a new measure of workplace self-advocacy behaviors.

This qualitative study, conducted in collaboration with Dr. Haram Kim from Texas Tech University and Dr. Wiley Stem from New Mexico State University, uses a modified Consensual Qualitative Research–Methodology (CQR-M) to explore how women advocate for themselves in the workplace. The project focuses on understanding their advocacy experiences and the intentional communication and influence strategies they use in professional settings. 

This study is conducted in collaboration with Swashodhan Trust, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting digital education, healthcare, and skill development in rural India. The project aims to develop a scale that measures happiness from an Eastern perspective, conceptualizing happiness as a state of inner peace and freedom arising from the absence of craving, aversion, and ignorance.

This study is conducted in collaboration with researchers from the University of Florida (UF) and the University of the West Indies. The project evaluates the effectiveness of a six-year cross-cultural consultation partnership between counseling centers in a U.S. university and a university in Jamaica. Each year, doctoral interns provided consultation and delivered workshops and trainings under the supervision of staff psychologists (UF) at a counseling center in Jamaica. The study focuses on understanding the experiences of consultees and how they perceive and engage in these cross-cultural consultation partnerships.