Stacey Alicea is a first year doctoral student in the Psychology
and Social Intervention program. She received her dual B.A. in Community Health and Sociology from Brown University, and her MPH degree in Population and Family Health from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Stacey has worked as a Senior Clinical Research Coordinator and Project Director at Mount Sinai and School of Medicine and the HIV Center at the New York State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia University. She has directed a variety of federally and foundation funded applied research and service projects involving HIV prevention and treatment for OVC, and adolescent and family mental health and academic achievement across urban domestic and international settings.
Stacey's research interests include: strength-based approaches to adolescent development in the context of families and schools, emergent adulthood, teacher-youth relationships as they relate to, mental health, identity and academic outcomes of at-risk youth. She is particularly interested in conducting community participatory and collaborative research. She is currently working at NYU's Center for Research on Culture, Development, and Education with her faculty mentor, Dr. Diane Hughes.