Melissa Morgan Consoli (bottom left) with doctoral Counseling Psychology students at Loyola University Chicago
Dr. Melissa Morgan Consoli of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School gave an invited presentation at her alma mater, Loyola University Chicago, to the faculty and staff of the Department of Counseling, School of Education. The talk was entitled “Overcoming Adversity: Culture, Resilience and Thriving – Results from Mixed Method and Qualitative Inquiry.”
Melissa Morgan Consoli is an Associate Professor in the Department of Counseling, Clinical and School Psychology. She specializes in multicultural, international and immigrant research, with an emphasis on Latino/a populations. All of her research is conducted through a social justice lens, using qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods designs as well as community based research paradigms. Her goal is for research to be culturally relevant, informative in the development of prevention and other community programs, and useful in addressing societal issues of concern for the populations with whom she works.