Coloradan Conversations: Transforming Treatment for Mental Health

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June Gruber

June Gruber is a licensed clinical psychologist, associate professor of psychology and neuroscience at CU Boulder and director of the Positive Emotion and Psychopathology Laboratory.

Her research includes positive emotion and reward-related disturbance in psychopathology with a focus on bipolar and mood-related difficulties, and she co-leads a call to action centered on the mental health crisis sparked by the COVID-19 pandemic.听

Gruber has published over 100 articles and chapters and edited two books including the Oxford Handbook of Positive Emotion and Psychopathology and Positive Emotion: Integrating the Light Sides and Dark Sides with Judith Moskowitz. Her work has been recognized by the Association for Psychological Science鈥檚 Rising Star Award, the Janet Taylor Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Contributions, the Society for Research in Psychopathology's Early Career Award and two National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD) Young Investigator Awards.

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Kourtney Kelley

Kourtney is a听CU Boulder psychology alumna with a minor in sociology, and a senior project manager and professional research assistant with the Mindful Campus Program and the Girls Like Us Program at the Ren茅e Crown Wellness Institute.

She is a 2020 recipient of the Barry and Sue Baer Scholarship for Undergraduate Research and served as a victim advocate for Movement to End Sexual Assault (MESA) in Boulder County, as well as an intern and volunteer with the Gang Reduction Initiative in Denver.

Kelley advocates for social justice integrated with mindfulness-based practices and is passionate about mental and physical health; engaging within her community to research and inspire change; and creating inclusive mental health resources and support. She is driven to investigate proactive methodological approaches that support child development with lifelong impacts and plans to pursue a PhD in clinical psychology.

Amelia Moser

Amelia is a PhD student in clinical psychology and neuroscience at CU Boulder. She graduated from Tufts University with a BS in clinical psychology in 2018, and came to CU Boulder to pursue her interests in the development and treatment of adolescent psychopathology.

She is particularly excited by the prospect of identifying predictors and mechanisms of successful treatment outcomes, with the goal of more informative evidence-based care for teenagers.

Elisa Stern

Elisa Stern is a PhD student in clinical psychology and behavioral genetics at CU Boulder. Stern鈥檚 research focuses on connecting neuroscience with behavioral genetics of mental health, including genetic and environmental influences on psychopathology onset and risk of comorbidity.

She graduated from Colby College in 2017 with a BS in psychology and concentration in neuroscience and worked as a postgraduate research associate for two years at Yale University School of Medicine.

She chose CU Boulder to pursue her interests in adolescent substance use; intergenerational transmission of parental health traits; and genetic and environmental influences on psychopathology onset and comorbidity.

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