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
Javier Garcia-Perez, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, SAFELab
Aviv Landau, Ph.D., M.S.W.
Co-Director, SAFELab
Siva Mathiyazhagan, Ph.D., M.S.W.
Associate Director, SAFELab
Shana Kleiner, L.M.S.W.
Lab Manager, SAFELab
Nathan Aguilar
Doctoral Candidate, Columbia School of Social Work
Yixi Zhou, M.S.W.
Graduate Student, School of Social Policy and Practice
Jasmine Weiss
Graduate Student, School of Social Policy and Practice
Sandhya Jha
Graduate Student, School of Social Policy and Practice
Christiana Dillard
Doctoral Student
Kallahan V. Brown
Doctoral Student
Shug Miller
Graduate Student, School of Social Policy and Practice
B. Carrie-Yvonne
Graduate Student, School of Social Policy and Practice
Ruyue Feng
Graduate Student, School of Social Policy and Practice
Araí Yegros
Graduate Student, School of Social Policy and Practice
Comfort Sampong
Research Associate, SAFELab
Nya Mbock
Doctoral Student
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
Janiya Clemmons
Eno Darkwa
Danyelle Dawson
Lena Diasti
Sarah Dillard
Natosha Dobbins
Fahnmusa J. Edwards
Antoinette Gardner
Dorothy C. Handfield
D. Fox Harrell
Becky Inkster
Nina Johnson
Abby Kamen
Ashutosh Kanitkar
Patrick Leonard
Enes Lima
Michelle Lyttle Storrod
Jamie Macbeth
Divine Maloney
Mina Mohammadi
Mirinda M. Morency
Emma Nechcamkin
Mutale Nkonde
Justin Reich
Maia Robinson
Chōkdee Rutirasiri
Kiran Samuel
Charlotte Selous
Thalea Lynn Torres
Irena Vera Trufunovic
Victoria Muthoni Tswamuno
Roger Villarreal
Durrell Washington
Lance Weiler
Emily Weinstein
Amanda Weiss
Todd Whitney
Chris Young
Fallon Wilson
Henry A. Willis
Stephanie Sarabia
Fallon Parfaite
Prarthana Pilla
Taylor L. Smith
Cheney Yu
