Sahian Cruz

Sahian Cruz earned a PhD in School Psychology at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. She hails from eastern Washington, where she grew up in the microcosm of the orchard in which her family worked. Sahian graduated from the University of Washington in 2020, where she studied psychology and French. Her current research focuses on models of family-school-community partnerships with a Liberation Psychology lens. Sahian’s research interests include Latinx adolescent mental health, culturally-centering family engagement in schools, decolonized intervention practices, and Liberation Psychology. Sahian is currently an intern at the Connections Internship Consortium in Palatine, IL.

Publications

Barber, A., Eklund, K., Weist, M. M., Soto, D., Cruz, S., Collins, B., & Knuckey, L. (under review).
Using community collaboration to evaluate the cultural relevance of the Resilience Education
Program. School Psychology.

2024 Cruz, S., Knuckey, L., & Bednarek, G. (February). Building and sustaining community-engaged research and practice [Mini-skills presentation]. Annual Convention of the National Association of School Psychologists, New Orleans, LA.
2024 Barber, A., Soto, D., & Cruz, S. (February). Community enhancements of Resilience Education Program for Black youth [Paper presentation]. Annual Convention of the National Association of School Psychologists, New Orleans, LA.
2023 Ramirez Stege, A., Cruz, S., Soto, D., & Rivera, N. (October). Nuestra Esperanza: Doctoral student-led community-engaged scholarship as part of an innovative community-based training model [Symposium]. Annual convention of the National Latinx Psychological Association,
Chicago, IL