Michelle Liu (she/her) is a first year Clinical Psychology Ph.D student at Loyola University
Chicago under the mentorship of Dr. Colleen Conley. As a non-traditional applicant, she has spent time working in non-profit and government agencies before coming back to academia. She was the Senior Project Manager for the TEAM Lab under Dr. Stephen Schueller at the University of California, Irvine. She was formerly the App Review Lead of the One Mind PsyberGuide project. She has her Bachelor’s degree in Biology, Neuroscience, from the University of California, Riverside, and her Master of Public Health in Public Mental Health from the University of California, San Diego. She is dedicated to increasing accessible and equitable mental health resources for Asian American adolescents by tailoring existing digital mental health interventions. Michelle has worked in the non-profit sphere on projects funded by The Public Health Institute and the California Mental Health Services Authority conducting different health promotion campaigns and community engagement initiatives in her community. She also has experience in conducting research studies in the academic world on topics such as design in mental health and research among adolescents and college students.
Before her Ph.D program, Michelle worked at San Diego State University's HealthLINK Center as their Implementation Methods Group Coordinator with Drs. Kelsey Dickson & Elva Arredondo. She also worked as a Senior Implementation Research Assistant at the Baker Center for Children & Families with Dr. Kelsie Okamura on the Mohala Na Pua DP1 project towards understand implementation behaviors of a culturally grounded substance use curriculum for rural Hawaiian youth. In addition, she worked on a few independent projects. She worked with Dr. Jennifer Green at San Diego State University, investigating the role of "mind-body" mindfulness mHealth applications for pregnant minority women. She also worked with postdocs Giovanni Ramos and Anthony Chen at UC Irvine - the former: investigating the role of task-shifting mental health aid + a mindfulness DMHI for racial and ethnic college students who have experienced levels of discrimination and the latter: understanding LGBTQ+ emerging adult's use of social media for help seeking, connection, and emotional regulation from an human computer interaction perspective.
When Michelle is not at her desk, she is a competitive powerlifter and an overenthusiastic dog mom of three Shiba Inus.
Chicago under the mentorship of Dr. Colleen Conley. As a non-traditional applicant, she has spent time working in non-profit and government agencies before coming back to academia. She was the Senior Project Manager for the TEAM Lab under Dr. Stephen Schueller at the University of California, Irvine. She was formerly the App Review Lead of the One Mind PsyberGuide project. She has her Bachelor’s degree in Biology, Neuroscience, from the University of California, Riverside, and her Master of Public Health in Public Mental Health from the University of California, San Diego. She is dedicated to increasing accessible and equitable mental health resources for Asian American adolescents by tailoring existing digital mental health interventions. Michelle has worked in the non-profit sphere on projects funded by The Public Health Institute and the California Mental Health Services Authority conducting different health promotion campaigns and community engagement initiatives in her community. She also has experience in conducting research studies in the academic world on topics such as design in mental health and research among adolescents and college students.
Before her Ph.D program, Michelle worked at San Diego State University's HealthLINK Center as their Implementation Methods Group Coordinator with Drs. Kelsey Dickson & Elva Arredondo. She also worked as a Senior Implementation Research Assistant at the Baker Center for Children & Families with Dr. Kelsie Okamura on the Mohala Na Pua DP1 project towards understand implementation behaviors of a culturally grounded substance use curriculum for rural Hawaiian youth. In addition, she worked on a few independent projects. She worked with Dr. Jennifer Green at San Diego State University, investigating the role of "mind-body" mindfulness mHealth applications for pregnant minority women. She also worked with postdocs Giovanni Ramos and Anthony Chen at UC Irvine - the former: investigating the role of task-shifting mental health aid + a mindfulness DMHI for racial and ethnic college students who have experienced levels of discrimination and the latter: understanding LGBTQ+ emerging adult's use of social media for help seeking, connection, and emotional regulation from an human computer interaction perspective.
When Michelle is not at her desk, she is a competitive powerlifter and an overenthusiastic dog mom of three Shiba Inus.