January - April 2025

• March - I presented my poster and my first in-person symposium paper presentation at SRNT 2026, Baltimore!

• February - I presented my first in-person poster based on my SGM youth weekly-diary project at SPSP, 2026 in Chicago! 

• January - My quasi-experimental data and student and staff interviews from the program evaluation of Invite Only VR Vaping Prevention Game (XR Peds) has been accepted for poster presentaton at SRNT 2026, Baltimore. 

September - December 2025

• December - Analyzed pre-post data from multi-day school visits to test our Invite Only VR Vaping Prevention Game in R (XRPeds), created, and submitted the final progress report to the Department of Public Health, Connecticut. 

• December - Our systematic review and meta-analysis on LGBTQ+ minority stress, social support, and mental health was published in the Clinical Psychology Review Journal.

• December - Lead and ran multi-day school visits to test our vaping prevention virtual reality game in middle school students across 3 public schools in Connecticut.

• November - My analyses of focus groups showing vaping as a means to cope with mental health distress among middle school students has been accepted for oral presentation at SRNT 2026, Maryland. 

• November - My SGM youth weekly diary study has been accepted for presentation at SPSP 2026.

May - August 2025

• July - Began working as Postgrad Research Associate at XRPeds, Yale School of Medicine.

• June - Completed baseline data-cleaning for Project EQuIP.

• May - Data-analyzed! Presented results during the lab meeting for my weekly diary study.

January - April 2025

• March - Completed data-cleaning and began data-analysis for weekly diary data in R for my manuscript.

• January - Began learning and working on data-cleaning in R for my manuscript on the impact of stigma exposures on minority stress reactions and mental health outcomes among sexual and gender minority youth. 

September - December 2024

• June - Completed data-cleaning and data-analysis in R and presented manuscript results in the lab meeting. 

• November - Presented the project concept for my weekly diary study in the lab meeting.

• October - Began conducting semi-structured diagnostic interviews of participants (EQuIP).

• September - Assigned the Lead RA on Project EQuIP R01. 

May - August 2024

• July - Began working as Postgrad Research Associate at the Yale LGBTQ Mental Health Initiative.

• June - Incoming Postgraduate Research Associate at Yale School of Public Health.

• May - Defended my Master's Dissertation and graduated with my MS in Applied Psychology with First Class distinction!

January - April 2024

• April - Submitted my Dissertation and Internship Report.

• April - Began my duties as Lab Manager PWR Lab at Florida International University (FIU).

• April - Dissertation abstract accepted for poster presentation at the National LGBTQ Health Conference.

• March - Evolve abstract accepted for poster presentation at APS 2024.

• March - Dissertation abstract accepted for poster presentation at SPSSI 2024.

• March - Incoming Lab Manager at PWR Lab at FIU in Summer, 2024 (Remote).

• February - Peer Mentor of 8 Masters Student's Dissertations.

• February - Received Ethical Approval for my Dissertation! Participate now.

• February - Presented 3 studies at SPSP 2024.

• January - Submitted Dissertation* IRB Application.

• January - Began Clinical Psychology Internship at Prerana Hospital, Mysore.

September - December 2023

• December  - Presented an Evolve Study at the 10th ICSPW.

• December - Joined the PWR Lab at FIU as a Research Assistant (PI: Dr. Asia Eaton).

• November - Presented the Diversity Fatigue Study at ABCT Student SIG Exposition.

• September - Presented the Binegativity Study Proposal at the Bisexual Research Group's BRAC Event.

*  In India, a dissertation is submitted during Masters and a thesis at PhD.