Lab Personnel:
- Lab Manager: Ashley Lopez, ashley.lopez@pitt.edu
- Project Coordinator: Sofia Adame, sofia.adame@pitt.edu
Graduate Student Advisees:
- Sydni Davila
- Patrick T. Quintero
- Ph.D., University of Michigan
Education & Training
- Dr. Dolores O. Morris Fund Early Career Grant, American Psychological Foundation (2025–2026)
- Small Grants Program for Early Career Scholars, Society for Research in Child Development (2024–2025)
- Grand Challenges for Social Work Doctoral Award, The New York Community Trust (2023)
- Ford Foundation Pre-doctoral Fellowship (2020)
- Latin American and Caribbean Studies Field Research Grant, University of Michigan (2020)
- Rackham Merit Fellowship, University of Michigan (2017-2023)
- Medrano, A. S., Medina, C. M., Davila, S. A., Adame Montelongo, E. S., Jenkins, A. S., Pina, I. M., Vazquez, Y. N., Leonard, A. F., Dupree, G. E., Martinez, A., Kabir, Z., & Wah Figueroa, F. (in press). Sexual victimization in school, community, and online contexts: A scoping review on the measurement of youth sexual victimization. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse. https://doi.org/10.1177/15248380251412532
- Medina, C. M., Hudson, J. A., Geoffroy, G., Harvey, A., & Medrano, A. S. (in press). Puedes decirnos con confianza: A mixed methods study of neighborhood-based sexual harassment and parent-adolescent communication in rural Mexico. Violence Against Women. https://doi.org/0.1177/10778012251410898
- Davila, S. A., Adame Montelongo, E. S., Labrousse, D., & Medrano, A. S. (2025). “Uno no puede solucionarlo por si mismo”: Sociocultural influences on mental health and help-seeking attitudes among rural Mexican adults. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1177/00220221251387702
- Medrano, A. S. & Ceballo, R. (2025). Neighborhood violence, parent-child cohesion, and psychological outcomes in Latino adolescents: A longitudinal moderation analysis. Psychology of Violence. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/vio0000604
- Sabina, C., Mariscal, S. E., Weber, M., Medrano, A. S., Flores, Y., Agorde, E., Elliot, J. M., Gonzalez, V. V., & Restrepo-Ruiz, M. (2025). Factors enhancing resilience among youth exposed to macro-level violence in Spanish-speaking countries in Latin America. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 26(2), 265–282. https://doi.org/10.1177/15248/1358204283481032049130795375
- Medrano, A. S., Davila, S. A., Labrousse, D., Adame Montelongo, E. S., & Williams, E.-D. G. (2025). Disentangling machismo and caballerismo: Mental health help-seeking in rural Mexico. Journal of Rural Mental Health, 49(3), 267–277. https://doi.org/10.1037/rmh0000291
- Mora, A. S., Gutiérrez, L. M., & Ceballo, R. (2024). The role of parent-adolescent communication among youth exposed to neighborhood violence in rural Mexico. Families in Society, 105(3), 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1177/10443894231222942 ***Article awarded 2024 Best Quantitative Paper
- Mora, A. S., Ceballo, R., & Cranford, J. (2022). Latino/a adolescents facing neighborhood dangers: An examination of community violence and gender-based harassment. American Journal of Community Psychology, 69(1–2), 18–32.https://doi.org/10.1002/ajcp.12556
My program of research focuses on contextual aspects of neighborhoods—such as exposure to community violence and sexual harassment— and their influence on adolescents’ psychological and academic functioning. I use a resilience framework and strengths-based perspective to identify individual-, family-, neighborhood-, and cultural-level protective factors that can buffer adolescents from negative outcomes. My work focuses on Latino/a/x adolescents and their parents both in the U.S. and in Mexico, and increasingly, in the intersection of multiple marginalized identities. To study adolescent development, I use diverse methodological approaches, including cross-sectional and longitudinal statistical analyses, qualitative, and mixed-method approaches.
