AMPLIFY LAB DIRECTOR

Dr. Wendy de los Reyes is an Assistant Professor at Claremont McKenna College. She received her Ph.D. in Community Psychology from DePaul University in 2023, followed by postdoctoral training in Developmental Psychology at the University of Michigan. She is also an aluma of the University of Miami (B.S.Ed. ’13, M.S.Ed. ’16). Her interests include taking an asset-based approach to examining the healthy development of Latinx & immigrant-origin youth, with an emphasis on sociopolitical development. She uses a mixture of quantitative, qualitative, and community-based participatory research methods. 

LAB COORDINATOR

Corissa graduated from DePaul University with a Bachelor’s in psychology in 2025. She also minored in biology, sociology, and Spanish. She began as a research assistant on the SLYCE project in 2022, and became lab coordinator in 2025. She became interested in this field after growin gup in a predominantly white, conservative town in rural Ohio, where she faced opposition when fighting for social change. Her research interests include neurodevelopmental disorders and healthcare equity.

RESEARCH ASSISTANT

Rosario Barraza graduated from Florida State University with a Bachelor’s in Latin American Studies and International Affairs. She’s originally from Miami with Peruvian descent and recently moved to Tallahassee, FL for education. Her former experience in community organizing brought her to have research interests in the healthy development of youth of color, critical civic engagement/critical consciousness, gender violence, and exclusion in Latin America.

RESEARCH ASSISTANT

Missy Fuentes Delgado is the Program Assistant for Access and Outreach at the Rackham Graduate School at the University of Michigan. She is also formerly the Lab Manager for the CASA Lab. She graduated from Stanford University with a BA in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity with a subplan in Politics, Policy and Equity, along with minors in Psychology and Symbolics Systems. Missy's research interests include racial/ethnic identity development and diversity within broader institutions, specifically how it can inform the development of interventions for real world application.