Meet the DREAM Team
Principal Investigator
Dr. Chardée Galán, PhD (she/her): Dr. Galán is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology at the the Pennsylvania State University (PSU where she oversees the Dismantling Racial inEquities Around Mental Health (DREAM) lab. She received her Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley, and her Masters and PhD from the University of Pittsburgh. She completed her predoctoral clinical internship at Western Psychiatric Hospital.
Her works takes a multipronged approach to reducing racial disparities in child and adolescent mental health by 1) promoting resilience at the individual-level through strengths-based approaches to mitigating the effects of racism-related stressors; and 2) dismantling structural drivers of racial inequities that persist in education and training programs, research institutions, and mental health care settings. Dr. Galán identifies as a cisgender, heterosexual Mexican American woman and the daughter of immigrants.
Learn more about Dr. Galán’s work:
Reach Dr. Galán:
Email: cag6443@psu.edu
Twitter: @ChardeeGalan
Lab Coordinators
Graduate Students
Research Assistants
Alumni
KC Aldana (they/them)
Erin Heimbecker (she/her)
Isaac Morales (He/Him)
David Quezada (He/Him)
Asha Rudrabhatla (She/Her)
Alexis Ware (She/Her)
Taylor Daniels (She/Her)
Ellie Kalala (She/her)
Kelsey Nguyen (She/Her)
Kristen Clocuh (She/Her)