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Christine Ma-Kellams

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Christine Ma-Kellams

Associate Professor, Department of Psychology.

Christine Ma-Kellams is an associate professor of the Department of Psychology. Her research draws on social and cultural psychology to explore how thoughts, emotions, and close relationships interact as a function of a person’s ethnicity, gender or social group memberships. She holds a doctoral degree in social psychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara and completed her postdoctoral training in both the psychology department and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

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Diversity, Culture, Discrimination, Mental Health, Relationships

Lesther Papa

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Lesther Papa

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology. (Photo by Jim Gensheimer/San José State University)

Lesther Papa is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology. He is a faculty member of the Clinical Mental Health Counseling program and is a faculty advisor to two Filipinx student organizations. His clinical specialization is in clinical child and adolescent psychology, especially in trauma-informed interventions for young and school-age children. He conducts research on microaggressions in historically underrepresented communities. He holds a doctoral degree in psychology and an education specialist degree in school psychology from the combined Clinical, Counseling, and School Psychology Program at Utah State University.

Phone: 408-924-5671
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Mental Health, Trauma, Child And Adolescent Psychology, Microagressions

Matthew Capriotti

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Matthew Capriotti

Associate Professor, Department of Psychology. (Photo by Jim Gensheimer/San José State University)

Matthew Capriotti is an associate professor in the Department of Psychology. He studies behavioral interventions to support people living with Tourette Syndrome and tic disorders. His second area of research focuses on identifying, understanding, and ending health disparities among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) people. He holds a doctoral degree in clinical psychology from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.

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Tourette Syndrome, Tic Disorders, LGBTQ, Child Mental Health, Mental Health