People

Tessa Charlesworth

Post-Doctoral Fellow

Tessa Charlesworth is currently an Assistant Professor within the of Department of Psychiatry at Tufts Medical School. She was a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University and at the University of Toronto. Dr...

Jesus De Luna

delunajesus@fas.harvard.edu

Doctoral Student

Jesus is a PhD student in psychology whose research examines the psychological mechanisms that sustain economic inequality and social class stigma. Combining experimental and computational methods, he investigates how attitudes toward the poor and the...

Selen Divanlioglu

Undergraduate Research Intern

Selen Divanlioglu is a third-year in Leverett House concentrating in Psychology. Under Rachel's mentorship, she is interested in how stigma processes influence emotion outcomes as well as how those processes might manifest across different contexts &...

Mark Hatzenbuehler

Lab Director

John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences

Mark Hatzenbuehler is the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences in the Psychology Department at Harvard. He received his PhD in Clinical Psychology from Yale and completed his post-doctoral training in population health at Columbia...

Nathan L. Hollinsaid

nathan_hollinsaid@fas.harvard.edu

Doctoral Student

Nathan L. Hollinsaid (he/him/his) is a clinical science doctoral student in the Biopsychosocial Effects of Stigma (BEST) Lab at Harvard University. Originally from Illinois, he graduated summa cum laude from Tufts University with a B.S. in clinical...

Jae Ji

Undergraduate Research Intern

Jae Ji (she/her/hers) is a third-year in Dunster House double concentrating in Psychology and East Asian Studies. Advised by Nathan, she is most interested in the relationship between structural stigma and (mental) health, specifically regarding strengths...

Do Yeon Kim

Research Intern

Do Yeon Kim was a junior at the college studying Psychology and Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality. Her primary research interests involve structural stigma and the ways that it contributes to adverse mental health outcomes in minority populations...

Micah Lattanner

Post-Doctoral Fellow

Micah Lattanner is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Health at Santa Clara University. Micah’s program of research examined pathways by which stigma operating at the structural, interpersonal, and individual levels coalesce to...

Sophia LeBlanc

Undergraduate Research Intern

Sophia LeBlanc (she/her) is a third-year at the college concentrating in Psychology with a secondary in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality. With Nathan's mentorship, she is most interested in researching multilevel discrimination, related...

Suin Lee

Undergraduate Research Intern

Suin Lee is a second-year student at the college concentrating in psychology. With mentorship from Nathan, Suin is most interested in researching clinical and social disparities, processes, & interventions related to marginalized communities.

Rachel Martino

rmartino@fas.harvard.edu

Doctoral Student

Rachel Martino (she/her) is a Ph.D. student in the Clinical Science program at Harvard University. She graduated from Brown University in 2019 with a B.S. in Psychology and Gender and Sexuality Studies and has worked with Dr. Dima Amso on children’s...

Charlie May

Lab Mascot

The BEST Lab welcomed Charlie May as its mascot this summer. Her interests thus far are napping, frolicking in the dog park, eating treats, digging, and chewing on everything under the sun, including Mark’s arms and legs. Her research interests center...