Pooja Aradhya

Pooja Aradhya is a doctoral student in counseling psychology at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & 人类发展. She works as a research team member in the ARISE Lab and the Social Adjustment & Bullying Prevention Lab. Her research/clinical interests include Asian & Asian American mental health, bias-based harassment, liberation psychology, racial trauma, and multicultural counseling training.

As a master’s student, Pooja worked closely with Dr. Usha Tummala-Narra and a team of researchers to look at college-aged men of color’s experiences of sexual violence and victimization. She continued working with Dr. Tummala-Narra as a research assistant at Boston University’s Albert & Jessie Danielsen Institute. Prior to that, Pooja worked as an integrated behavioral health clinician for two years at the East Boston Neighborhood Health Center, where she provided comprehensive behavioral health care for adult patients with medical and behavioral concerns.

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