Ami Patel is a third-year doctoral student in the School Psychology program at UMD. Ami received her B.S. in Psychology from Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) in 2015 and her Master’s in Counseling Psychology from Temple University in 2017. Upon graduation, she worked as a Clinical Research Coordinator for Dr. Thomas Power, Dr. Jennifer Mautone, and Dr. Ricardo Eiraldi at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) on school-based research studies. Ami is interested in culturally responsive interventions, social-emotional learning, and mental health impacting Asian American students.