Postgraduate Associate
Yale School of Medicine
New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Claudia McKenley, BA is a Postgraduate Associate in the Racial Equity and Addiction Lab and the Program for Recovery and Community Health in the Department of Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine. She has been affiliated with Yale since August 2022. Claudia has experience working with children within the school and childcare system and adults with alcohol and substance use disorders engaged in research studies. She came to her interest in childhood trauma research through her experience in the school system with children with early adversity and the traumas recounted to her by participants in the substance use projects she is a part of. She has co-authored articles in the alcohol and substance use area. Notably, a manuscript that reported on the associations between racism-based trauma and craving for alcohol and a systematic review that explored the self-help recovery choice in racial and ethnic minority populations. Additionally, she has also presented multiple posters across local and national conferences both in the areas of substance use and trauma research. She obtained her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology with a concentration in mental health with a minor in Sociology at Southern Connecticut State University in December 2022. She graduated with a cum laude distinction. In the future, she aspires to obtain a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, her research interests are in the areas of early life adversity (such as abuse, neglect, community violence, household dysfunction, familial conflict, and racism-based stress) and its association with mental health outcomes in children and their families.
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Review of Intergenerational Trauma Among Racial and Ethnic Minoritized Groups
Friday, March 14, 2025
6:00 PM – 7:00 PM US Eastern Time
