Anil Chacko is an Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Psychology at NYU. He received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He completed his clinical internship at the Institute for Juvenile Research, Department of Psychiatry, the University of Illinois at Chicago and then a two-year Postdoctoral Fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. His research interests focus primarily on the development of effective, engaging, and efficient prevention, intervention and service delivery models for youth at-risk for or affected with disruptive behavior disorders.
Kailee Kodama Muscente is a doctoral candidate in New York University’s Clinical/Counseling Psychology program under the mentorship of Dr. Anil Chacko. Her research interests lie at the intersection of youth mental health, parent-child relationships, and culturally competent interventions. She is particularly interested in how to improve access to and retention of ethnic minority populations in mental health services and ways in which clinicians can help destigmatize mental illness among Asian Americans.
Prior to joining NYU, she was a research assistant for the Culture and Health Promotion of Minority Youth and Families lab, where she studied the mental health and well-being of Asian American parents and children. She also partnered with researchers at George Mason University to explore the impacts of parenting on youth leadership development. Her past clinical experiences include training at Jersey City Medical Center’s Child Outpatient and Partial Hospitalization departments and servicing behavioral and socio-emotional therapy to youth with developmental disorders.
Kailee received her B.A. in Psychology from Pepperdine University, and her Ed.M. in Counseling Psychology and M.A. in Psychology from Teachers College, Columbia University.
Madison Forde is a second-year doctoral student in the Clinical/Counseling Psychology PhD program at New York University. Her research interests include understanding how contextual, familial, interpersonal, and intrapersonal factors influence the development and persistence of behavioral challenges. She is particularly interested in applying this knowledge to develop and optimize community-based, culturally-informed, and accessible interventions that improve service engagement and utilization among under-resourced, urban-poor, and trauma-exposed populations.
Before joining NYU, Madison served as the Lead Research Assistant in the Social Cognitive Affective Neurodevelopment Laboratory at NYU Langone Health.
Madison earned her B.A. in Psychology from Amherst College.
Gabrielle Drake is a first-year doctoral student in the Counseling/Clinical Psychology program at New York University. Her research interests center around mental health among trauma-exposed youth, caregiver-child relationships, and sustainable interventions. In particular, she is interested in how caregiver involvement can enhance the effectiveness of interventions targeting disruptive behavioral symptoms in traumatized children.
Before joining NYU, Gabrielle contributed to research in Global Mental Health with Dr. M. Claire Greene, examining interventions for children affected by trauma in low- and middle-income countries impacted by humanitarian crises. She also conducted research on child behavior and social development with Dr. Julia Marshall. Gabrielle has clinical experience working with Spanish-speaking children from underserved communities and has contributed to treatment programs for children with selective mutism.
Gabrielle received her B.S. in Psychology from Boston College and her M.A. in Clinical Psychology from Teachers College, Columbia University.
FACES Research Assistants
Lab Alumni
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Alyssa Chimiklis, PhD
Amrita Mitchell-Krishnan, PhD
Brittany Matthews, PhD
Estrella Rajwan-Heber, PhD, Northwell Health Lennox Hill Hospital
Jodi Uderman, PhD, Montefiore Medical Center
Maria Michelle Vardanian, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Mount Sinai
Melinda Cornwell, PhD, Private Practice
Michael Levy, PhD, Private practice
Nicole Feirsen, PhD, Montefiore Medical Center
Rhonda Donoho, PhD, Private practice
Victoria (Tori) Dahl, PhD, Johns Hopkins, Kennedy Kreiger
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Aahana Punjabi
Angel Vazquez, Columbia University MSW Program
Angela (Page) Spears, Columbia University Clinical Psychology PhD program
Betty Yan
Crystal Hunter
Elizabeth (Lizzy) Chan, PhD, Rutgers University
Elizabeth Mateer, Seattle Pacific University Clinical Psychology PhD program
Elysha Clark Whitney
Gabrielle MacNaughton, UCLA Clinical Psychology PhD program
Janice Lu, Hofstra University Clinical Psychology PhD program
Jiayue Mao
Jonathan Applebaum
Kaitlyn Kugler, University of Wisconsin Madison, School Psychology PhD program
Katie Fogarty, PhD, Hofstra University Clinical Psychology PhD program
Kelly Goss, PhD, Long Island University Clinical Psychology PhD program
Kelly Liao
Mary Wang
Melinda Stewart
Meredith Cohen
MiAmor Aguirresaenz, Pace University, Clinical Psychology PsyD program
Mikell Bursky, CUNY Queens College, Clinical Psychology PhD program
Mirjam Buger-Calderon, MA, Rutgers University, Clinical Psychology PsyD program
Nicole Chow
Nicole Lui, MA, Hofstra University, Clinical Psychology PhD program
Noureen Faliksher
Oriana Barone, West Chester, Clinical Psychology PsyD program
Rachel Wong
Reyna Nagpal
Sarah Peralta, University of Maryland, Baltimore Clinical Psychology PhD program
Sarah Seto, MA, Notre Dame, Clinical Psychology PhD program
Siyi (Ice) Lou
Sophia Mysak, NU School of Law
Stephanie Thomas, MA
Suni Shah, MSW
Tiffany Davis, MS, Occupational Therapy
Violeta Bangiyev, Clinical Psychology at LIU-Brooklyn
Vion He
Wallington Lin
Yuika (Lia) Iwai, Ohio University, Clinical Psychology PhD program
Zuania Capó, MA