Team

Robin serves as the Administrative Assistant for the firm and several projects, as well as being the Research Assistant for the DDC evaluation. She received her BA from San Francisco State University in 2009 in Criminal Justice. She earned several awards at SFSU including the Arete Award (Most Outstanding Student-Athlete of the Year), Dr. Hal Charnofsky Award (California Collegiate Athletic Associations’ Student-Athlete), and ESPN The Magazine/Academic All-District VIII College Soccer Division First Team.
 
 
 
 

Jamie started with DYJA in 2008 and is the senior research assistant for the TASH evaluation project. Jamie received her BA from U.C. San Diego in 2002 and her MA from San Francisco State University in 2005 in Political Science (with an emphasis in research methodology). Since 2003, she has worked as a staff researcher at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She works on multiple NIH-funded studies on improving MRI diagnostic and monitoring tools for imaging patients with brain tumors. She is currently a doctoral candidate in Sociology of Health and Illness at UCSF. Her graduate research is on the perceived health care needs of women with mental health and substance use issues experiencing homelessness, and the barriers and facilitators that exist in meeting those needs. In addition to this project, she has also worked on a number of projects on housing, disability, and long-term care.

Teresita earned her BA in Sociology and Criminal Justice from the University of Washington and her Masters in Public Health from San Jose State University. She is an experienced health educator who has served in local communities, as well as abroad.  She also has a background in research and project management and has worked on research related to creating healthy public spaces, veterans’ mental health, diversity in academia, and environmental issues in Mongolia. At DYJA, she is currently working on the SATE project.
 
 
 

Dr. Huang received his doctorate in education from U.C. Berkeley in 2003, with an emphasis on program evaluation and quantitative methods. He earned his MS in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from CSU, San Bernardino and his BA in Psychology from the University of Southern California. During his doctoral years, he worked as a research associate for Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE), Berkeley, where his primary roles included providing advanced statistical analyses in the evaluation of public policy and intervention programs. In 2004, Dr. Huang assumed a statistician position at UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute Biostatistics Core, where he served as a statistical and methodological consultant to research scientists and residents. In 2005, Dr. Huang accepted a position at UCLA Alzheimer’s Disease Center as their database analyst, where he oversaw the center’s data management system for its multi-site and longitudinal research study. By 2007, Dr. Huang transitioned to the private sector as the director of analytics for a large live entertainment corporation, where he continues to apply his statistical and research skills in the field of marketing, consumer behavior, and corporate intelligence and strategy. Currently, Dr. Huang also continues his research endeavors as a consultant to PACE and DYJA.

Summer received an MA in Clinical Professional Psychology from Roosevelt University and a BA in Psychology from Spelman College. Her professional experiences are a unique mix of practitioner and researcher. As a former clinical therapist, Summer acquired five years of experience working as a direct service provider. Additionally, as a social science researcher, she has examined projects exploring evidence based mental health services and early childhood educational interventions. In 2010, Summer completed the Robert Wood Johnson Evaluation Fellowship where she expanded her interests to capacity building as a fellow with the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. Summer’s current interests are in the areas of evaluation capacity building, leadership development, and social justice.  At DYJA she currently works on the PCC and JTDC evaluations.

Chet graduated summa cum laude with a Masters in Experimental Psychology and a BS in Psychology from Towson University in Baltimore, Maryland.  He joined DYJA after completing a graduate research and teaching assistantship at Towson University where he served on a three-chair admission committee for the Master’s of Psychology program and taught Intro to Psychology.  He brings a spectrum of clinical and academic experiences that includes eight years serving in a psychiatric rehabilitation hospital, three years as a researcher, and his current position at UCSF as a part-time research associate in the department of pediatrics.  His future plans include publishing his thesis research to an empirical journal and pursuing a medical degree. He currently works on the SATE project.

Dr. Morales is a clinical and consulting psychologist and Professor of Psychology at the California School of Professional Psychology where he co-founded and coordinated the Multicultural and Community training program. He is also Executive Director of AGUILAS, an HIV prevention program for Latino gay/bisexual men, and has served as the Program Evaluator for the Epiphany Center in San Francisco for the past ten years. His current research and program evaluation areas include interventions with drug-exposed infants and their mothers, HIV prevention interventions for Latino and African American gay/bisexual men, and interventions with high-risk juvenile offenders. With high-risk youth, Dr. Morales developed and was director of an outpatient day treatment program for Latino youth in San Francisco, as well as the Program Evaluator of CADRE, a drug prevention program serving a variety of ethnic minority youth through a collaborative of eight community-based agencies.
 
In addition, Dr. Morales has founded many programs and organizations in the areas of substances and HIV/AIDS, especially research and service programs addressing HIV within minority communities. He was also founder and first director of the AIDS Health Project of UCSF.
 
Dr. Morales was President of the Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues of the American Psychological Association (APA) (2003-06) and was one of the founders of Division 45 of APA (Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues). He is also a member of various APA committees, boards and divisions, as well as a fellow in four APA Divisions. He received his BS degree at Fordham College in NYC and his PhD in Counseling Psychology at Texas Tech University.

Concurrently to his work on the SATE project, Gordon is pursuing a PhD in the Health Services and Policy Analysis Program at U.C. Berkeley. He received his BA in Psychobiology and Public Health from U.C.L.A. and his Masters in Epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health. Gordon's research interests include global mental health, organization theory and foreign aid and development.