SAFELab
People
Get to know the SAFELab team at the University of Pennsylvania!
Our Director
Desmond Upton Patton, Ph.D., studies the impact social media has on well-being, mental health, trauma, violence and grief for youth and adults of color.
Core Team
SAFELab's faculty, students, and staff at the University of Pennsylvania
Siva Mathiyazhagan, Ph.D., M.S.W.
Co-Director, SAFELab
Javier Garcia-Perez, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, SAFELab
Shana Kleiner, L.M.S.W.
Assistant Director, SAFELab
Aviv Landau, Ph.D., M.S.W.
Co-Director, SAFELab
Thomonique Moore
Doctoral Student
Kallahan V. Brown
Doctoral Student
Nathan Aguilar
Doctoral Candidate, Columbia School of Social Work
Yixi Zhou, M.S.W.
Graduate Student, School of Social Policy and Practice
Sandhya Jha
Graduate Student, School of Social Policy and Practice
Elizabeth Houck
Research Fellow, School of Social Policy and Practice
Eileen Tong
Research Fellow
Thalia Hai
Graduate Student, School of Social Policy & Practice
Ray Xue
Graduate Student, School of Social Policy & Practice
Ashley Zhiyin Zhang
Research Fellow, School of Social Policy & Practice
Bethlehem Terefe
Research Fellow, School of Social Policy & Practice
Leila Azari
MSW Student Fellow
Co-Investigators
Affiliates
Mohammed Abusway
Robin Altman
Kelly Anguiano
Nia Imani Atkins
Philipp Blandfort
Jacquelyn Elizabeth Blum
Eddie Bocanegra
Sydney Brower
Brittany Ribeiro Brown
Tyler Isaiah Campbell
B. Carrie-Yvonne
Janiya Clemmons
Eno Darkwa
Danyelle Dawson
Lena Diasti
Sarah Dillard
Natosha Dobbins
Fahnmusa J. Edwards
Ruyue Feng
Antoinette Gardner
Dorothy C. Handfield
D. Fox Harrell
Becky Inkster
Nina Johnson
Abby Kamen
Ashutosh Kanitkar
Patrick Leonard
Enes Lima
Elisha Lim
Jamie Macbeth
Divine Maloney
Nya Mbock
Shug Miller
Mina Mohammadi
Mirinda M. Morency
Emma Nechcamkin
Mutale Nkonde
Fallon Parfaite
Prarthana Pilla
Justin Reich
Maia Robinson
Chōkdee Rutirasiri
Kiran Samuel
Stephanie Sarabia
Charlotte Selous
Taylor L. Smith
Michelle Lyttle Storrod
Thalea Lynn Torres
Irena Vera Trufunovic
Victor Trussell
Victoria Muthoni Tswamuno
Roger Villarreal
Durrell Washington
Lance Weiler
Emily Weinstein
Amanda Weiss
Jasmine Weiss
Todd Whitney
Fallon Wilson
Henry A. Willis
Araí Yegros
Chris Young
