Amazing Student: Alondra Lopez
Alondra Lopez (B.S. ’22, M.Ed. ’24, Ph.D. ’29) is a doctoral student in counseling psychology whose work centers on social justice, bilingual mental health care, and advocacy for immigrant communities.
“My research focuses on the mental health impacts of immigration detention and enforcement,” said Lopez. “Using community-based participatory action research, I aim to collaborate with immigrant families and advocates to document detention-related trauma and co-develop community and culturally centered responses rooted in ancestral knowledge and resistance.”