Kianna Arthur received a B.S. in Psychology at Lewis-Clark State College and completed her Ph.D. in Social and Personality Psychology at Texas A&M University. Her research interests include counterfactual thinking, nicotine and tobacco use, motivation and goals, decision-making, and intervention development.

Julie Cristello earned her Ph.D. in Clinical Science in Child and Adolescent Psychology from Florida International University. She completed the Clinical Psychology Predoctoral Internship Training Program at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. Her research focuses on the etiology of adolescent substance use, particularly the influence of online (e.g., social media) and offline (e.g., parents, peers) social contexts on alcohol and drug use. The overarching goal of her work is to identify modifiable targets for interventions as a way to reduce substance use and its associated consequences among youth.

Ardhys De Leon earned her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Central Florida. She completed the Clinical Psychology Predoctoral Internship Training Program at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. Currently, she is completing an NIAAA T32 postdoctoral fellowship, working with Dr. Hayley Treloar, at the Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies at Brown University. Her research focuses on investigating and mitigating health compromising factors (i.e., sociocultural stressors) that impact alcohol use among vulnerable populations (i.e., Hispanic/Latinx drinkers) using mobile interventions. Her long-term goal is to develop a culturally tailored treatment for Hispanic/Latinx individuals with alcohol use disorder. 

Fatima Dobani earned her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Syracuse University and completed the Clinical Psychology Predoctoral Internship Training Program at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University in 2026. Dr. Dobani is currently a postdoctoral fellow on the NIAAA T32 at the Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies at Brown University. Her research focuses on alcohol/substance misuse across youth development and the interplay with sleep disturbances as well as tailoring interventions for alcohol misuse among youth.

Dr. Allison Greene earned her Ph.D. in Public Health at UNT Health Fort Worth. Prior to that, she completed a B.S. in Addiction and Recovery followed by an M.S. in Human Development and Family Studies at the University of Alabama. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow on the NIDA T32 at the Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies at Brown University. Her research focuses on leveraging ecological momentary assessment methods to explore the etiology and consequences of young adult substance use, with an emphasis on identifying cognitive and contextual risk and protective factors to inform the development of prevention and intervention programs. 

Lindy Howe earned her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at Indiana University and completed the Clinical Psychology Internship Training Program at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University in 2024. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow on the NIDA T32 at the Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies at Brown University. Her research focuses on the etiology and consequences of alcohol and cannabis use across various populations, often employing ecological momentary assessment (EMA). Emerging interests include ambulatory assessment methods and the interplay between perinatal substance use and mental health.

Tessa's research interests focus on health disparities in substance use. In particular, she has an interest in protective factors for substance use in Multiracial individuals and people from other minoritized racial/ethnic groups. Tessa completed her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at the University of Rhode Island and received her B.S. in psychology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Lindsey Nichols received a B.S. in Psychology at the University of Texas, Austin and completed two M.S. degrees and a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology at the University of Oregon. She completed a predoctoral internship specializing in juvenile justice at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. Her research interests are substance use interventions and treatment for adolescents and young adults, variability in mental health treatment effects, post-treatment supports and maintenance, and research synthesis methods.