Announcing the Recipients of the Transdisciplinary Multi-Sector Collaboration Research Seed Grants

“Multisector Responses to Religious Trauma and Service Use among LGBTQ Youth Experiencing Homeless”

Jordan Goodwin (LSW, MDiv) (she/her) is a doctoral candidate in the School of Social Work at Rutgers University where she works as a Graduate Research Assistant in Rutgers’ Center for Prevention Science. Jordan holds a B.S. in Psychology from the University of Florida, Master of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary, and Master of Social Work from Rutgers. Jordan is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) with experience providing individual and group pastoral counseling as a chaplain in an inpatient psychiatric hospital. Jordan has worked in diverse clinical settings, including providing substance use counseling in an outpatient community behavioral health setting and case management to individuals and families in temporary and affordable housing. Jordan has taught policy and practice courses in Rutgers’ MSW program and was a research supervisor on a project studying thriving religious communities via digital ethnography. Jordan currently serves as co-chair of Rutgers’ Ph.D. Student Planning Committee on Anti-Racism and is on the mentoring subcommittee of the Society for Social Work Research’s Doctoral Student Committee. Jordan’s research focuses on solutions to homelessness, social determinants of health, mental health and substance use interventions, LGBTQ+ issues, religion and spirituality, positive youth development, and trauma-informed social work practice.

Dr. Karlena D. Ochoa is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the School of Education at the University of California, Irvine. She has a Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from the University of Oregon and specializes in investigating how to support children's learning with an emphasis on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math in informal settings in Latine communities. Her research focuses on historically underserved communities and places great emphasis on community engagement. Dr. Ochoa employs an assets-based approach that leverages everyday practices and cultural values to promote play and learning in activities that resonate with families. In addition, Dr. Ochoa is active in her community and passionate about increasing the visibility of Latine researchers and hopes to connect and support researchers studying Latine families and communities to promote healthy child development for all children.

Dr. Onnie Rogers is an Associate Professor of Psychology and Faculty Fellow with the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University, where she also directs the DICE lab (Development of Identities in Cultural Environments). A developmental psychologist and identity scholar, Dr. Rogers is interested in social and educational inequities and the mechanisms through which macro-level disparities are both perpetuated and disrupted at the micro-level of identities and relationships. Her projects focus on how children and adolescents make sense of their racial, ethnic, and gender identities; how cultural stereotypes shape the development and intersectionality of these identities; and the ways in which multiple identities influence adolescents’ social-emotional and academic wellbeing. Dr. Rogers was named an “Emerging Scholar” (2018) by Diverse Issues in Higher Education, and a “APS Rising Star” (2017) by the American Psychological Association. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Spencer Foundation, and the Ford Foundation and she publishes widely. She is as an action editor for Journal of Adolescent Research and serves on editorial boards for Developmental Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Review, Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, and Qualitative Psychology. Dr. Rogers earned her Ph.D. in developmental psychology from New York University and holds a B.A. in psychology and educational studies from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).