Bharat is a 4th year doctoral student in the Health Track of the Clinical Psychology Ph.D. program at the University of Miami (UM), under the mentorship of Dr. Steven Safren.

His research interests include LGBTQ+ mental health, resilience, intersectionality, implementation science, and developing new interventions aimed at preventing HIV and bolstering resilience in marginalized communities, especially for queer people of color.

He is currently a member of the American Psychological Association’s (APA) Advocacy Coordinating Committee, helping evaluate and shape advocacy priorities that impact psychologists across research, public interest, health service psychology, and clinical practice. At state level, he is the co-chair of the Collaborative Problem Solving Group and serves on the Social Justice and the Diversity and Cultural Competence Committees within the Florida Psychological Association.

Josh DeSon (they/them) is a clinical and research postdoctoral fellow at Yale Medicine within the Yale Gender Program. They earned their Ph.D. in clinical psychology in 2025 from Fordham University’s Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program, where they also received their M.A. in clinical psychology in 2021. They completed their clinical internship at the Yale School of Medicine and Yale-New Haven Health hospital’s Clinical Psychology Internship Program. At this clinical fellowship they conducted clinical work with LQBTQ patients and their families within the Yale Gender Program. Josh earned their B.A. in psychology, specializing in health and development, from Stanford University in 2017.

Josh’s primary research interests include investigating gender minority stress and resilience factors and how they interact with daily emotion regulation experiences and nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) in gender-diverse youth and young adults. They also are interested in research examining strengths and protective factors regarding LGBTQ youth and young adult suicide prevention.

Josh approaches clinical work from a systems- and trauma-informed, gender-affirming, and evidence-based perspective. Their approach is rooted in cognitive-behavioral and third-wave therapies, and centers family-oriented treatment as appropriate. Josh has worked in various clinical settings, including pediatric LGBTQ clinics, college counseling centers, private practice settings, inpatient hospitals, and severe mental illness units in a forensic jail setting. From their previous work, Josh has developed a clinical approach emphasizing authenticity, cultural humility, harm reduction, and working collaboratively with youth and families to foster radical healing and hope.

Dr. Christin Mujica (she/her/ella) is recent graduate of University of Arkansas’ Clinical Psychology PhD program. She is first-generation Venezuelan-American, a mom to a wonderful daughter, and identifies as a scientist-practitioner-activist. 

Her research interest are related to understanding and addressing the impact of racism on the mental health of People of Color with a growing focus on perinatal populations. Dr. Mujica is currently a NIDA T32 Postdoctoral Fellow at the Medical University of South Carolina where she is focused on the treatment of co-occurring PTSD and SUD in perinatal populations.

At the core of who Christin is, and deeply tied to her values, is a commitment to helping transform the organizations and institutions she is a part of. She strives to leave them better than she found them, extending a hand to those who will come after her and ensuring they enter a more welcoming, supportive space.

Zach served as an active-duty Marine from 2013 to 2017, where he developed a strong commitment to leadership, resilience, and mental health. Following his honorable discharge, he earned his bachelor’s degree at Washington State University, researching adolescent risk and resilience, adversity, and infant temperament. He later continued this work at the University of Idaho’s Stress and Coping Lab, studying stress and barriers to mental health care in rural communities.

In 2020, Zach began doctoral training in clinical psychology at the University of Southern Mississippi. His clinical focus is in pediatric and health psychology, providing evidence-based interventions for trauma, internalizing disorders, and health behavior change. He works with patients and families coping with chronic illness, medical complications, neurodevelopmental disorders, and adversity, emphasizing culturally responsive, strengths-based care that fosters resilience, well-being, and health equity.

His research examines the intersection of adversity, physical health, and positive psychology, with a focus on how adaptive traits and health behaviors protect at-risk populations. He employs physiological assessments—including electroencephalography, actigraphy, and biomarkers of stress—to study biopsychosocial processes. His long-term goal is to integrate research on health, equity, and protective factors with clinical practice to inform interventions that reduce disparities and promote positive functioning.

Zach completed his pre-doctoral internship at the Greater Hartford Internship Consortium in Connecticut and is now a postdoctoral fellow at Mayo Clinic.