Dana Charles is a second year doctoral student in the Psychology and Social Intervention program. She received her B.A. in Psychological and Brain Science from Dartmouth College. Before joining the PSI program, she worked as a research assistant in the Depression Clinical and Research Program at Massachusetts General Hospital for two years, and was a summer fellow in the Pediatric and Developmental Neuropsychiatry Branch of the NIMH.
Dana currently works with Dr. Cybele Raver on the Chicago School Readiness Project in the Institute of Human Development and Social Change. Her research interests include the prevention of behavioral and emotional problems in low income preschoolers and the use of causal methodology in the study of intervention efficacy. She recently completed a project examining the relationships between low income, ethnic minority caregivers' emotional expressiveness and their children's emotion regulation skills and behavior problems. Her faculty mentor is Dr. Cybele Raver.