Brianna A. Baker

Brianna A. Baker (she/her/hers) is a doctoral candidate in the Counseling Psychology Ph.D. program at Teachers College, Columbia University. Her research interests broadly include sociopolitical determinants of mental health, Black youth and families, and ameliorating sociohistorical racial trauma through community-focused program development and policy-level interventions. Her dissertation explores the complexities the Black mother-daughter matrix related to gendered racial identity and socialization. She hopes to mesh her passions for communications, public health,and psychology to bring African American mental health to the forefront of America’s social, moral, and political agendas to advance racial and health equity.