Natalia Jaramillo is a doctoral student with an emphasis in Clinical Psychology working under Erika Felix. She received her B.A. from Clark University in 2012. After graduating she worked at the University of Southern California as a project assistant at the Culture and Mental Health Lab on a study looking at prosocial family factors in the course of schizophrenia among Mexican Americans. In 2014 she took on a project coordinator position at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles where she conducted research on a multi-site study called Provider-Tailored Interventions for Perioperative Stress which examined health care provider behavior and children’s perioperative distress. In addition, she coordinated a study in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) examining acute stress and post-traumatic stress in children and their parents following admission to the PICU. Her research interests include understanding patterns of risk and resilience in the context of experiences of trauma in ethnic minority youth, post-traumatic growth and examining cultural issues surrounding mental health.