Sabrina Liu presenting at the 2018 APA Conference
UC Santa Barbara’s Graduate Division, the Graduate Student Association, and the Library will co-sponsor Lunch & Learn featuring Sabrina Liu, a doctoral student at the Gevirtz School, on Friday, October 5 in Library, Room 1312 from 12 noon to 1 pm. Liu will present the talk “Patterns of Childhood Risk & Resilience: Implications for Racial Disparities and Health” as one part of the program; the other talk will be presented by Yang Qiu, a graduate student in Environmental Science, on the topic “Rare Earth Elements Demand and Recycling in Efficient Lighting Technologies.” The event is free and open to the public and includes lunch; those wishing to attend should RSVP online.
Sabrina Liu is a doctoral candidate in the UCSB Department of Counseling, Clinical, & School Psychology, with emphases in Clinical Psychology and Quantitative Methods in Social Sciences. Originally from the Boston area, Sabrina graduated from Tufts University with a B.A. in Clinical Psychology. Before graduate school, Liu worked as a clinical research coordinator for the Harvard Study of Adult Development and interned with Sangath, a community-based mental health research organization in Goa, India. There she assisted on several projects, including integrating mental health services into schools and adapting an intervention for children with autism to the local community. Liu’s research and clinical interests include resilience in youth exposed to adversity, and trauma prevention and intervention in culturally diverse communities. At UCSB, Liu, who is advised by Dr. Maryam Kia-Keating, has engaged in research focused on understanding and addressing the impact of exposure to community violence, adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), mass violence, and natural disasters. In 2017, Liu was awarded the UC President’s Dissertation Year Fellowship for her dissertation research, which examines patterns of risk and protective factors for youth of different racial/ethnic backgrounds and how these patterns contribute to health and health disparities.
Lunch & Learn is a monthly informal seminar series that provides grad students with two important things: free lunch and a chance to socialize with and learn from their peers from across the campus.