Kristina Anderson Peggy Andrews Katie Brewton Cherie Collins Kimberly Diggles Kara Erolin Jessie Everts Herb Grant Memory Grems Chris Gonzalez Clinton Gudmunson Heather Haberman Zoe Hendrickson Mary Kelleher Faten Khoury Bibiana Koh Karen Z. Kramer Sara Lassig Jaerim Lee Jinhee Lee

Sunmi Lee Johnben Teik-Cheok Loy Amanda Matzek Erin Morgan Stephanie Mosher Justine Nelson-Christinedaughter Jane Newell Tomoko Ogasawara Laurelle Olsen Paul Orieny Ella Packingham Shuling Peng Szu-Yi Peng Chelsea Petree Libby Plowman Pang Rhodes Samantha Rieks Christina Robert Dorothy Rombo

Di Samek Gregg Schacher Kristin Schneider-Dillon Chanran Seo Polina Sheldeshova Lindiwe Sibisi Brooke Skinner-Drawz Seohee Son Sheena Thao Anna Thurmes Annie Toeung Holli Trombley Lynn Von Korff Beverly Wallace Tina Watson-Wiens Jason Wilde Brian Willoughby Mary Woodward-Kreitz PaNhia Yang Janet Yeats Julie Zaloudek

	Kristina Anderson Kristina (ande3709@umn.edu) is originally from southwestern Minnesota. She has earned a B.A. degree in Psychology and French from the College of St. Benedict and a M.A. in Counseling Psychology from the University of St. Thomas. Kristina served as a business analyst and software trainer for several years before getting her M.A. Her most recent job was providing in-home behavior therapy to children with autism, which coincided with her interests in looking at how families experience chronic illness or disability.
	Peggy Andrews Peggy (pandrews@umn.edu ) completed her M.A. in Human Development at St. Mary's University in Minneapolis, and is currently enrolled in the Ph.D. program. Her work experience includes 15 years in Human Resources in both staff and consulting positions, as well as adjunct faculty appointments at the University of St. Thomas (Organization Development), Bethel University (HR Management) and the University of Minnesota (The Work-Life Relationship). She is interested in psychological, anthropological, and philosophical perspectives on working mothers.  Her current research projects deal with the lived experiences of mothers who have professional careers, and the family impact of white collar layoffs.  In her spare time she blogs about career issues at  http://careerencouragement.typepad.com .
	Katie Brewton Katie (brewt007@umn.edu) was born in Des Moines , Iowa and has also lived in Arizona and Kansas.  She earned a B.S. in Psychology and a minor in Leadership Studies from Kansas State University. While at K-State, she participated in research involving children's perceptions of teasing and completed a practicum where she worked with women and families affected by domestic violence and sexual assault. Katie has been accepted directly into the Family Social Science doctoral program at the University of Minnesota and is currently pursuing her Master's degree.  Her research interests lie with issues relating to adoption, such as post-placement contact between birthparents and adoptive parents, boundary ambiguity in adoption (from the perspective of the birthmother), identity development in adoptees, and adoption agency policy. She is also interested in issues relating to grief and loss, parent-child relationships and childhood teasing.
	Cherie Collins Cherie (colli123@umn.edu) is from New Orleans, Louisiana. She received a B.A. in Social Work from LeMoyne Owen College, a Masters in Clinical Social Work from the University of Tennessee and completed a Post Master's Fellowship in Clinical Social Work at the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas. Prior to moving to Minnesota, Cherie was a clinical faculty member at Louisiana State University. Her research interests include family stress and resilience, families and mental health, and community/family partnerships.
	Kimberly Diggles Kimberly (diggl017@umn.edu) is a Marriage and Family Therapy Ph.D. student from Dallas , TX . She earned a B.S. in psychology and a M.Ed. in counseling at Texas Christian University . In Texas , she worked as the after-school coordinator and Dean of Students for Summerbridge, an enrichment program that serves under represented middle school children in urban public schools. Kimberly's current interests include minority family dynamics and working with communities to increase family resiliency.
	Kara Erolin Kara (erol0003@umn.edu) is a native Minnesotan and completed her M.A. in the Counseling & Student Personnel Psychology program at the University of Minnesota. Kara is interested in research areas related to multicultural families, including diverse family forms, culturally sensitive and culturally specific counseling methodologies, and intercultural and interracial adoption and relationships. She is particularly interested in the impact of systemic oppression on marginalized individuals and families.
	Jessie Everts Jessie (ever0128@umn.edu) grew up in various parts of the Midwest, including Duluth, MN, and Dubuque, Iowa. She received a B.S. in Psychology and a B.A. in English from Iowa State University , and an M.A. in Marriage and Family Therapy from Minnesota School of Professional Psychology. Her clinical work has focused on autism in families, divorce mediation and custody evaluations, traumatic brain injury, and behavioral counseling. Research interests include families with children in special education and gifted programs, as well as differentiation and identity development.
	Herb Grant Herb (grant047@umn.edu), originally from Alaska, lives in Minneapolis with his family. He has his M.A. from the University of St. Thomas. Currently his interests are in multi-cultural and marginalized families, particularly urban American Indian families and families and mental health. Herb comes to the program as a licensed marriage and family therapist and has worked in the American Indian community in Minneapolis for the last seven years.
	Memory Grems Memory (mroberts@umn.edu) grew up in North Dakota, but now calls Minnesota home. She received a B.S. from the University of Minnesota in Family Social Science. She works on the Latino Financial Literacy project which is evaluating the cultural adaptation of a financial literacy curriculum and has helped conduct focus groups among the Spanish speaking population of southern Minnesota. Memory is an eager learner and enjoys many topics, but her research passion is clutter. She wants to learn how clutter in the home environment influences how we interact with our family members, and is focusing initially on newly married couples. She hopes to someday start her own decluttering business.
	Chris Gonzalez Chris (gonza181@umn.edu) is a native Minnesotan who received a B.A. in English Education from Harding University in Searcy, Arkansas. After teaching 7th grade English in the Houston Public Schools, he received a M.A. in Marriage and Family Therapy from Abilene Christian University in Abilene, Texas. He worked full time as a therapist for five years before coming to the University of Minnesota for doctoral studies in Family Social Science. His research interests include adolescent self-disclosure and secrecy, parent knowledge, and the Circumplex Model of Marital and Family Systems.
	Clinton Gudmunson Clinton (cgudmuns@umn.edu) began his academic career at Clark College , a small community school in Vancouver, Washington where he spent time growing up. He completed his B.A. and M.A. degrees at Brigham Young University in Marriage, Family and Human Development. His interests center on family life at the intersection of economic and financial issues. He is particularly interested in the perceptions that family members manifest regarding their resources, and how those perceptions may influence family relationships, behavior, and personal well-being. His research typically involves the use of large national data sets (NSFH, NLSY, US Census, etc.) and falls within the scholarship on work and family, family business, family economics, family finances, financial education, and even parenting! He has taught personal finance and financial counseling courses in the classroom and online. His developing dissertation applies his interest in Life Course theory and longitudinal methodologies to questions related to family and economic issues over time.
	Heather Haberman Heather (habe0076@umn.edu ) received her B.A. in Family Studies from Montana State University in 2000 and her M.A. in Family Social Science from the University of Minnesota in 2003. She is a doctoral candidate in the process of completing her dissertation: Online Research Methods among Family Researchers: The Diffusion of an Innovation. Projects she has been involved in here at the University of Minnesota include the Family Business Project, Minnesota/Texas Adoption Research Project (MTARP), National Endowment of Financial Education High School Financial Planning Project, Parenting Together Project, and Long-Term Care Project. Heather's research focuses on the Internet as a research method, e-health, and the culture of technology in relation to couples and family.
	Zoe Hendrickson Zoe (carr0255@umn.edu) has home-schooled her two children as far as their high school years, which challenged her parenting skills and led her to the Family Social Science department where she is working on a combined Masters and Ph.D. program. She has a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Minnesota.
	Mary Kelleher Mary (mkellehe@umn.edu) is a doctoral student on the Marriage and Family Therapy track. Her area of interest is collaborative family health care. She has a B.S. in Biochemistry from Western Washington University, a M.S. in Marriage and Family Therapy from Seattle Pacific University, and has completed an intensive internship in Mental Health with the University of Washington Department of Family Medicine. She is currently engaged in action research and clinical work with the East St. Paul Hmong community; she is also engaged in teaching Behavioral Medicine with family medicine residents from the University of Minnesota Department of Family Medicine and Community Health.
	Faten Khoury Faten (fkhoury@umn.edu) is a doctorate student in the Marriage and Family Therapy program. Faten Received her B.A. in Educational Counseling and Social Sciences, in 1992 at Haifa University, Israel. In addition, she received an M.S. in Educational Psychology at Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts in 1999. She received a Post-M.A. in Family Psychology, at University of St. Thomas Graduate School of Professional Psychology. Her experiences range from providing cross-cultural family therapy with diverse individuals, couples and families to conducting research and teaching. Currently she is working with families who deal with Alzheimer's and Dementing illnesses at the Family Caregiving Center at the University of Minnesota. Her areas of interest include cross culture therapy, culturally sensitive and effective clinical interventions, trauma, grief, and families dealing with chronic illness.
	Bibiana Koh Bibiana (bdkoh@umn.edu) received a master of Social Work degree from Smith College School of Social Work. Bibiana has done both clinical and administrative work in regular and special education schools, community and hospital-based outpatient clinics, and residential settings. Her clinical work has focused on children, youth, and families. Bibiana also holds a master of arts degree in East Asian Languages and Cultures from Columbia University, and a master of arts degree in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) from the School for International Training. She has lived and taught overseas in China, Korea, Morocco, and Laos. Her research interest is in individual and family identity – specifically the contributions of ethnicity, culture, agency, and socialization processes in identity formation in adolescents. Bibiana is also interested in narratives of family representation.
	Karen Z. Kramer Karen (kkramer@umn.edu) is a Ph.D. student from Haifa, Israel. She received her M.A. in Organizational Sociology from University of Haifa, Israel. She also holds a bachelor degree in Sociology and Anthropology and Political Science. Her research interests include retirement and the elderly, single parents, life course, and social identity. She is also interested in quantitative research methods.
	Sara Lassig Sara (lass0044@umn.edu) was born and raised in Stewartville, Minnesota . She received her B.S. in psychology with a gerontology minor from the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse. She completed her M.A. in Family Social Science at the University of Minnesota, and continued directly into the doctoral program. She is concurrently completing her M.A. in Social Work at the University of Minnesota. Her direct practice and research interests are in the areas of gerontology, death and dying, grief and loss, family caregiving, and health and mental health care for veterans. She is interested in the intersection between families, health and mental healthcare, and best practice models for effectively serving patients and their families in both medical and community based settings.
	Jaerim Lee Jaerim ( jalee@umn.edu ) is a doctoral student from Seoul, South Korea. She received her M.A. in Child Development and Family Studies from Seoul National University and has completed doctoral coursework there as well. Jaerim has worked with the Rural Families Speak Project during the past few years in pursuit of her interests in family policy, women's employment, families in poverty, and social support. She was also a member of several research projects and taught undergraduate courses at different universities in the metropolitan Seoul area.
	Jinhee Lee Jinhee (leex2890@umn.edu) is a doctoral student in Marriage and Family Therapy program. He was born and raised in South Korea . He received a M.A. in Counseling Psychology from the Catholic University of Korea and a M.A. in MFT from University of Louisiana at Monroe. He has worked with couples, families and individuals at diverse settings including an MFT clinic, veteran's home and primary health services center. His research interests include couple relationship, optimal fatherhood, and stress and coping of ethnic minority families.
	Sunmi Lee Sunmi (leex2466@umn.edu) is a doctoral student from South Korea . She graduated from Kyungpook National University with a Bachelor's degree in Home Management in 1999 and a M.A. in Child and Family Studies in 2001. She also has completed doctoral coursework there. She has written a thesis and two articles focusing on the couples' conflict, conflict-coping methods, and their marital satisfaction. She has taught undergraduate students at two universities as well. Her research interests include family structure, marital conflict, couple's interaction, parent-child relationship, and children adjustment.
	Johnben Teik-Cheok Loy Johnben (jloy@umn.edu ) was born and raised in Malaysia. He received undergraduate degrees in Music and Psychology from Canada , an M.B.A. from Cambridge University (England), and an M.T.S. in Counseling from Tyndale Seminary (Toronto). Johnben has over ten years of business management experience with his family business in Asia, and has worked with individuals, couples, and families in clinical settings since 2000. His research, teaching, and clinical interests are: family-owned businesses, work/family balance, Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy, Asian couples and families, and the integration of therapy and spiritual formation.
	Amanda Matzek Amanda (matze005@umn.edu) is a doctoral student of Family Social Science. She received her B.A. in psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and her M.S. degree in Human Development and Family Studies at the University of Missouri-Columbia. She has strong research interests in kinship ties among grandparent caregivers, family caregiving, gender issues with aging, intergenerational families, and later life family decision-making processes.
	Erin Morgan Erin (morg0218@umn.edu) is a Marriage and Family Therapy student newly transplanted from the Washington, D.C. area. She received her master's in MFT from Virginia Tech in Falls Church, VA. Her work here involves treating trauma systematically in families and communities and working with adolescent sexuality. Her past experience involved working with sexually abused children and their families as well as working in several shelters for abused women and children.
	Stephanie Mosher Stephanie (mosh0040@umn.edu), a native Minnesotan, comes to the Family Social Science Master's Program from the world of public television where she was a part of producing team that created regional historical, cultural and art documentaries. Now her areas of interests are focused on intergenerational and cross-cultural family narratives, as well as adoption research and policy.
	Justine Nelson-Christinedaughter Justine (nels2177@umn.edu) spent four years conducting research and program evaluation at Wilder Research Center before coming to FSoS in 2003. Youth development and family strengthening programs were a few of her projects. Before that, Justine studied Sociology; first receiving a B.A. at Macalester College in Saint Paul, and then receiving an M.A. at the University of Oslo, Norway. Two of her main interests of study in FSoS are family economics and adolescent development in the family context.
	Jane Newell Jane ( newe0016@umn.edu ) received an M.A. in Family Social Science from the University of Minnesota in 2008 and a B.S. in Social Work, with a minor in Parent Education, from St. Cloud State University in 1992.  Jane is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Family Social Science.  Her early work focused on child abuse prevention, early childhood family education, and early intervention for children's mental health. In the last few years her work with families who adopt older children from foster care prompted her return to graduate school.  Jane is interested in adoptive family formation of older youth (13 -17), how personality dispositions influence familial communication, as well as the process of emancipation for foster youth who age out of foster care.
	Tomoko Ogasawara Tomoko's ( ogasa002@umn.edu ) is a Ph.D student (MFT track). She is from Japan and came to the U.S. in 2003 where she earned her master degree in counseling education at Canisius College, Buffalo NY. During her study, she was strongly attracted by Marriage and Family Therapy, so decided to pursue a clinical training and family therapy academics at University of Rochester in New York . She worked at Strong Hospital in Rochester applying a medical family therapy model in her work at the psychiatric outpatient unit and women's health clinic. In addition, she worked at the Family Support Center in Spencerport, NY. She was also trained to work as a member of a domestic violence assessment and treatment team. She holds an M.A. in English and education and taught for several years at schools in Japan. Her clinical and research interests includechild and adolescent developmental issues in the family therapy framework, relational dynamics in a cross-cultural context, including couple/marital relationships in culturally diverse population, autonomy and interdependence in relationships, and cross-cultural research methodology.
	Laurelle Olsen Laurelle (lolsen@umn.edu) was born and raised Minnesota and received her B.S. in Psychology from North Central University in 2003. She then moved to North Carolina to obtain her Master's in Marriage and Family Therapy from East Carolina University . Her clinical placement is at Alliance Health Care, where she serves as the Treatment Director of Adult Rehabilitative Mental Health Services. Her clientele is adults diagnosed with serious and persistent mental illness. Her research interests include minority families and communities, cultural diversity and sensitivity, collaborative family health care, and families and mental health.
	Paul Orieny Paul (porieny@umn.edu) was born in Kenya and migrated to the United States in 1999. He received a B.A. in education at Kenyatta University in 1990 after which he taught as a high school teacher for 10 years. He then went on to complete a M.A. in Counseling and Psychotherapy from Adler Graduate School and is currently a Licensed Associate Marriage and Family Therapist. He has worked with low-income families and minority junior high students. His research interests include recent immigrant families’ issues and integration of complementary therapies and healing practices with marriage and family therapy.
	Ella Packingham Ella (ellap@umn.edu) was born and raised in St. Paul, MN. She completed her undergraduate work at Hamline University in St. Paul where she majored in Psychology and minored in Spanish.  She is currently working on completing her M.A. thesis in the area of money management and financial decision making in marriage.  Her latest areas of interest include family resource management, families of origin, and Transnational and Latin-American families.  Ella plans to complete her M.A. by May of 2008 and pursue a Ph.D. in Family Social Science.
	Shuling Peng Shuling (peng0080@umn.edu) originally from Taiwan, is a doctoral student on the Marriage and Family Therapy track. She received her B.A. in Sociology from National Chengchi University , Taiwan. She also holds a M.A. in Speech Communication from Western Illinois University (Macomb, IL) and a M.S. in Marriage and Family Therapy from Fuller Theological Seminary (Pasadena, CA ). Shuling's research interests include cross-cultural/multicultural couple and family therapy, family communication patterns and family functioning.
	Szu-Yi Peng Szu-Yi (pengx024@umn.edu), originally from Taiwan , is a doctoral student in the Marriage and Family Therapy program. She received a B.S. in Nursing from National Taiwan University and a Masters in Marriage and Family Therapy from Syracuse University. Her clinical interests are working with late teenagers and young adults regarding issues in intimate relationships. Her research interests include understanding the role of health playing into family dynamics, and experiences of individuals and families from global and diverse perspectives.
	Chelsea Petree Chelsea (petre025@umn.edu), a Minnesota native, is working on her combined Masters and Ph.D. here at the University of Minnesota. After graduating from St. Olaf College in 2005 with a B.A. in Family Studies (and Norwegian), she worked with MTARP for two years while preparing for graduate school. She is happy to finally be an official part of the program where she can pursue her research interests in adolescent development and sexuality.
	Libby Plowman Libby (eplowman@umn.edu) was born and raised a Minnesotan, growing up in Maple Grove. After graduating with distinction from St. Olaf College with a B.A. in English and Psychology, she engaged in a brief stint in the advertising industry. In Fall 2005, she entered the Master's program in Family Science at the University. Her primary research interests include the effects of chronic illness in the family and the crazy but special times we all like to call family holidays. Libby hopes to become a researcher and professor in Family Studies at a private liberal arts college after completing her M.A. and Ph.D.
	Pang Rhodes Pang (rhod0082@umn.edu) is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in private practice and a doctoral student in Family Social Science. Her research interests include the effects of acculturation on marital relationships of Southeast Asian couples. Pang received her B.S. in psychology from Brown University and her M.S.M.F.T. from Fuller Theological Seminary. Her family immigrated from Laos (via Thailand ) to the U.S. in 1976 and she grew up in Iowa . In 2001, Pang her husband and their two dogs migrated from sunny Southern California and have settled into life in beautifully seasonal Minnesota.
	Samantha Rieks Samantha (riek0022@umn.edu) is a Marriage and Family Therapy Ph.D. student in the Family Social Science Department. Although she enjoys travel and exploration, Samantha has always called the Twin Cities "home". She received her B.A. in Psychology from Winona State University in Winona, MN and her MS in Marriage and Family Therapy from the University of Wisconsin Stout in Menomonie, WI . Her inspirations for research come from her clients in the therapy room. Samantha's research interests often have social justice themes but lie in the realms of GLBT (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered) issues, trauma, various types of identity development, and cultural symbolism.
	Christina Robert Christina (rober103@umn.edu) is a doctoral student in the Marriage and Family Therapy program. Her current interests include cross-cultural counseling and the development of culturally specific mental health services for minorities. Originally from Washington, D.C., she received her undergraduate degree in English and German from Ball State University in Indiana, and her M.A. in Counseling from St. Mary's University of Minnesota.
	Dorothy Rombo Dorothy (romb0003@umn.edu) is originally from Kenya. Her educational background includes a Bachelor of Education in Home Economics, and a Masters of Education in Educational Communication and Technology, both from Kenyatta University, Nairobi. Her professional experiences include teaching at Kenyatta University in the Department of Family and Consumer Science. She came to the Department of Family Social Science on an International Fellowship from the Ford Foundation. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Family Social Science while studying family dynamics across cultures.
	Di Samek Di (same0031@umn.edu) is originally from Fargo, ND but now calls Minneapolis home. She received a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Minnesota . Her current research interests include identity and close relationships. Specifically, she is interested in studying the stability and fluctuations of multiple aspects of identity due to interpersonal relationships and small group dynamics throughout the life course (e.g., within the family, peer groups and romantic relationships). Other interests include adolescence, substance abuse and sibling relationships.
	Gregg Schacher Gregg (gschache@umn.edu) is a MFT doctoral student from Minneapolis, MN. He earned his M.A.M.F.T. from Bethel Seminary. His work involves in-home relationship coaching with young at-risk couples and a clinical therapy placement at a UMN Family Medicine clinic­; both projects give him experience with a wide range of socioeconomic, ethnic, cultural, and religious backgrounds.  His research interests include: the effect of spirituality and religion in the area of marriage and families, the impact of spiritual transformation on couple relationships, and the process of faith development in children and their families.  He currently is leading a project in a local faith community that seeks to develop family-based and community action initiatives that foster virtues and spirituality in the lives of young children and toddlers.
	Kristin Schneider-Dillon Kristin (kschneid@umn.edu) is a native Minnesotan. She received her B.A. and M.A.in Family Social Science at the University of Minnesota. She is now pursuing her Ph.D. Kristin's research interests include family policy, housing insecurity, domestic violence, sexual assault, romantic relationships, and non-traditional families.
	Chanran Seo Chanran (seoxx055@umn.edu) is a doctoral student from South Korea. She received a B.A. and M.A.in Home Economics Education from Chung-Ang University, South Korea. She had written a thesis and an article focusing on the effects of family environment and individual psychological variables on adolescent problem behaviors. She is primarily interested in parent-child relationships, parent education programs, family welfare systems.
	Polina Sheldeshova Polina (shel0237@umn.edu ) is originally from Russia (Krasnodar). She received her B.A. in linguistics (Russian language and literature) and M.A. (equivalent) in Teaching Russian for Foreign Students at Kuban State University (Krasnodar, Russia). She also had a research in family communication. After her graduation Polina has being working for two years teaching Teaching Russian for Foreign Students at Kuban State University and two years at Macalester College (Saint Paul, MN) as a Laboratory Instructor and Director of Russian House. Now Polina is doctoral student at Family Social Science. Her research interest includes family communication, international adoption, and ethnic identity.
	Lindiwe Sibisi Lindiwi (sibis002@umn.edu) is originally from Swaziland South Africa. She holds a B.S. in Home Economics from Andrews University (Michigan), a Certificate in Environment Education from Rhodes University (South Africa) and a Certificate in Adult Education from the University of Swaziland . She's been a teacher at elementary level for six years, junior-secondary for 17 years, college lecturer for three years and inspector of schools for five years. Her area of specialization has been general home economics. She has contributed in the writing of text books for grades 6-7 and junior-secondary levels. Currently she is involved in the fight against HIV/AIDS in the schools working with the non-governmental organizations.
	Brooke Skinner-Drawz Brooke (bskinner@umn.edu) received her B.A. from Macalester College in psychology and communication studies. She returns to Minnesota from North Carolina after receiving her MSW with a concentration in Direct Practice with Families and Children from UNC-Chapel Hill; she is a Licensed Graduate Social Worker. Brooke is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Family Social Science. She works with the Minnesota Texas Adoption Research Project; her current research interests include levels of openness in adoption, adoptee information seeking about birth family, and emerging adulthood among adopted persons.
	Soehee Son Soehee (sson@umn.edu) received her Bachelor's degree in Family and Child Welfare and her M.A. in Family Resource Management from Sookmyung Women's University in Seoul, Korea. Seohee is now pursuing a Ph.D. in Family Social Science. Her research interests include work-family balance, families in poverty, social support, and elderly parent - adult child relationships.
	Sheena Thao Sheena (thao0165@umn.edu) graduated from Carleton College in Northfield with a B.A. in Psychology with a concentration in Educational Studies. Sheena is currently pursuing a M.A. in Family Social Science (Plan B track). Her main research interests are parent-adolescent relationships, multicultural families, and immigrant families. Sheena is working for the Center for School Change at the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute as an Outreach Specialist. In this position, she works with school administrators, adolescent students, parents, and community members to help promote college prep programs, such as Post Secondary Enrollment Options. She also provides outreach assistance to minority students and serves as a mentor for the St. Paul Public School’s Multicultural Excellence Program.
	Anna Thurmes Anna (thur0080@umn.edu) graduated with a B.A. from University of Wisconsin , Eau Claire and a M.A. from the University of Minnesota, both in Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences. She works as a licensed speech-language pathologist, care coordinator, and research assistant at the University of Minnesota Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Clinic . As a clinician and researcher, Anna aims to bridge the gap between families and health care systems under the framework of interdisciplinary team management. Her ultimate goal is to empower families facing the challenges that cleft palate, craniofacial anomalies, and other chronic health conditions present. Anna's research interests include scientific investigation of treatment protocols and outcomes, active versus passive family participation in health care decision-making, the affects of disabilities/disease on families, and interventions focusing on resiliency and enhancing quality of life.
	Annie Ly Toeung Annie (toeun001@umn.edu) is a M.A. Family Social Science student that was born and raised in Spencer, Iowa. She received her B.A. in Child, Adult, and Family Services with an emphasis in family studies from Iowa State University in May of 2006. Her research experience has been involved with marriage and family therapists, but her current research interests include family of origin, multi-cultural families, social welfare, the transitions of refugees, and family policy.
	Holli Trombley Holli (tromble@umn.edu) graduated from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse in 1997 with a B.A. in Psychology and from the University of Wisconsin-Stout in 2000 with a M.A. in Marriage and Family Therapy. She has worked in a variety of positions ranging from in-home family therapy, advocacy in domestic violence,  and private practice. She is a state approved MFT supervisor. Holli also works with incarcerated fathers and their families in the Family Strengthening Project at the Council on Crime and Justice. Holli's interests include social justice issues, step-family issues, trauma and violence in families, fathering, resiliency and the human/animal bond.
	Lynn Von Korff Lynn (vonko002@umn.edu) is a doctoral student in the Family Social Science program. Her research interests include adoption, identity formation, human development, and psychopathology. She also has a strong interest in family research methodology, and has served as the Teaching Associate for Quantitative Family Research Methods. Lynn is currently the Data Analyst/Data Manager for the Minnesota Texas Adoption Research Project. She received an M.A. in Family Social Science for her thesis, "Openness Arrangements and Psychological Adjustment in Adolescent Adoptees" (Journal of Family Psychology, 2006). She has a B.F.A. from Boston University School of Fine Arts and an M.B.A. from the Carlson School of Management. Prior to becoming a Ph.D. student, Lynn was a non-profit manager and grant maker and taught financial management.
	Beverly Wallace Beverly (wall0405@umn.edu) is originally from Brooklyn, New York but most recently lived in Atlanta, Georgia where she was a chaplain at Emory University Hospital. She is an ordained Lutheran pastor and received her M.Div. from Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary in Columbia, S.C. She also holds an M.Ed. in Human Development and Family Studies from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Beverly is currently in the Marriage and Family Therapy Program at the University of Minnesota. Her various research interests include: grief and spirituality in the African American community, end-of-life issues in the African American community, and African American women's physical, spiritual and emotional health, specifically African American women coping with lupus.
	Tina Watson-Wiens Tina (wien0014@umn.edu) received a M.A. in Marriage and Family Therapy from Bethel University in 2001. Her current research emphasis is military families and couples experiencing forms of physical and/or emotional separation. She is a licensed marriage and family therapist with a private practice in St. Paul and an AAMFT supervisor.
	Jason Wilde Jason (jwilde@umn.edu) holds a M.S. in Marriage, Family and Human Development from Brigham Young University and a B.S. in Computer Science with a Family Science minor. His research interests include parenting—especially how parents prepare children for marriage and how parents teach children about human sexuality, couples relationship education, the intersection of family life and religion, program evaluation, and action research. He is a multi-method researcher who also enjoys practical application of his work for the strengthening of marriages and families.
	Brian Willoughby Brian (bwilloug@umn.edu) is originally from Eau Claire, WI .  He received a B.S. in Psychology with a minor in Marriage, Family and Human Development from Brigham Young University in Utah and a master's degree in Family Social Science from the University of Minnesota.  Brian worked briefly as a youth mentor for at-risk youth at a boarding school in Utah as well as serving as an autism therapist for various families in the Salt Lake Valley.  Brian's current research focuses on marital and premarital education, marital and relationship competency and emerging adulthood development.  Brian currently serves as the graduate student representative for the Emerging Adulthood Special Interest Group of the Society for Research on Adolescents.
	Mary Woodward-Kreitz Mary ( mkreitz@umn.edu ) is a Licensed Psychologist and Certified Sex Therapist originally from the Chicago area.  She received her B.A. from the University of Minnesota in 1985 with a combined focus in Psychology, Religious Studies and Women's Studies, and received her MA in Educational Psychology from the UM-Duluth in 1991. Mary has worked in a number of research and clinical settings, including the U of M Medical School, Psychology Department and Stanford University 's Psychology Department. Currently, she maintains a clinical therapy practice in Eagan, MN.  Mary has served as Adjunct Faculty in Psychology at Inver Hills Community College as well as Dakota County Technical College, and presents nationally in the area of sexual health.  She is currently pursuing research interests in test construction and sexual meaning in family science.
	PaNhia Yang Pa Nhia (pnyang@umn.edu) was born in Laos and immigrated with her family to the U.S. in 1985. Since then she has lived in Sheboygan, WI. She received a B.S. in Human Development and Family Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is now pursuing her Masters and Ph.D. Her current research interests are intergenerational family dynamics, immigrant family strengths,parent-adolescent relationships and ethnic identity.
	Janet Yeats Janet (yeats002@umn.edu) is a doctoral student in the marriage and family therapy program. She received a B.A. in English Literature from Bethel University and an M.A. in marriage and family therapy from Bethel Seminary. She is a Licensed Associate Marriage and Family Therapist. Her research interests include military personnel and their families, and the impact of trauma and grief on individuals, couples and families.
	Julie Zaloudek Julie(jzaloude@umn.edu) resides in the Spooner, Wisconsin area with her husband and four children. She earned her bachelor's degree in Political Science and Music at UW - River Falls and her masters in Mental Health Counseling at UW - Stout. As a member of both the Christian community and the academic community, Julie is interested in bridging the gap between the two in order to enrich both. She hopes to develop her research interests in gender roles, marriage relationships, parent/child relationships, and sexuality issues within the Christian community. Julie currently serves as a Minister of Music and teacher at the United Pentecostal Church in Spooner.