Sara Coronel Rodriguez

Sara Coronel Rodriguez is a doctoral student in the School Psychology area within the Department of Educational Psychology. She is advised by Dr. Katie Eklund.

Sara is half Paraguayan and half Costa Rican. She received her BA in Psychology and Anthropology from Wake Forest University and her MS in Education from Johns Hopkins University. Sara is a Teach for America alumni and worked as a Research Associate at Harvard Business School managing psychological behavioral research projects.

Her current research interests center on culturally responsive social and emotional learning interventions and practices in the school setting. In her free time she likes to read, travel and find new coffee shops to try.

Publications

Chapters in Scholarly Books

• Eklund, K., Barnett, K., & Coronel Rodriguez, S. (In press). Future of social emotional learning in a divisive culture. In. M. Burns (Ed.) Introduction to school psychology: Controversies and current practice. Oxford University Press.
• Eklund, K., Coronel Rodriguez, S., & Linares, N. (In press). Assessment of traumatic stress. In D. Saklofske, C. Reynolds, C. Frisby, V. Schwean, & T. Renshaw (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Child and Adolescent Psychological Assessment (2^nd edition). Oxford University Press.

Business Case Studies

• Keenan, E.A., Aparicio, D., & Coronel Rodriguez, S. (2024). ECOALF: Fashion for the future. Harvard Business School Teaching Plan524-095.
• Whillans, A., & Coronel Rodriguez, S. (2023). ghSMART & Co: Building and scaling a time smart firm. Harvard Business School Case 924-009, (In press April 2024).

Presentations

Barnett, K., Coronel Rodriguez, S., Hendrix, C., O’Neill, S. (2026, August). A systematic review of educator well-being interventions post-COVID-19. The poster will be presented at the American Psychological Association Conference in Washington DC.

Kilgus, S., Oddleifson, C., Decker, J., Linares, N., Coronel Rodriguez, S., Rysiew, J., Eklund, K., Von der Embse, N., Suldo, S. (2026, August). Teacher vs. Student SEB Reports Predict Achievement via Academic Growth. The poster will be presented at the American Psychological Association Conference in Washington DC.

Coronel Rodriguez, S. (2018, April). The Construction of Machismo in Paraguay. Honors thesis paper presented at the 5th Annual Women’s and Gender Studies Research Symposium at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC.

Coronel Rodriguez, S. (2018, March). The Construction of Machismo in Paraguay. Honors thesis paper presented at the 7th Annual Research Symposium on Gender and Sexuality at Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC.