Milagros Grados

  • Graduate Student
  • Department of Psychology; Clinical Psychology
  • Email: mgrados@uri.edu

Major Professor: Ellen Flannery Schroeder, Ph.D. & Hector Lopez-Vergara, Ph.D.
Lab: PAALs Lab & iMap Lab

Biography

Milagros is a first-year Clinical Psychology Ph.D. student. She graduated from Rutgers University in 2018 with a bachelor’s in psychology and a minor in cognitive neuroscience, gaining research experience in the Computational Cognitive Development Lab. She later worked as a Research Project Director at the Center for Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) for Stress, Trauma, and Resilience (STAR) at the Miriam Hospital.

Research

Milagros’ research interests focus on how environmental and family adversity affect mental health in marginalized communities, with a particular interest in the role of parental relationships and cultural factors in youth resilience and psychopathology. In her free time, she enjoys hiking, crocheting, painting, and stress baking.