Fátima Aguilar, B.A.

Fátima (she/her/ella) graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) with a B.A. in Sociology and a B.A. in English, double minoring in Spanish and Applied Psychology. At UCSB, she was a McNair scholar with the The Promoting Access through Dissemination/implementation Research on Evidence-based Services (PADRES) Lab.

Her most recent experiences include working as a clinical research assistant at Children’s Hospital, Los Angeles (CHLA) where she helped lead a project for a shared medical appointment system for adolescents and young adults with type 2 diabetes. Fátima also has experience working on a project related to Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES) as a research associate for the Kaiser School of Medicine. Fátima’s experiences have developed her interdisplinaryresearch interests to include a holistic approach that are guided by liberation psychology, community-led research/care, digital/mental health interventions with the goal of developing more preventative/early -interventions for systematically impacted communities. On her freetime, Fátima enjoys hiking, running, and dancing with loved ones!