Peju Bobbett

Peju Bobbett (she/her) is a Research Assistant in the Lab for Youth Mental Health. She graduated from Wheaton College with a B.A. in International Relations and Spanish, holds her Ed.M. in Human Development and Education from Harvard Graduate School of Education, and plans to pursue her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology. She is working on Project SMILE, a meta-analysis, examining the effectiveness of school-based interventions for youth with elevated mental health symptoms. Her focus is in improving treatment of race related stress and trauma, mental illness stigma, minority stressors for ethnic-racial minoritized youth, and cultural adaptation for mental health interventions given these factors in school-based settings. Her research aims to promote social justice and healing. Peju also works at the Rowe Lab (Meredith L. Rowe, Ph.D.) at Harvard University as a Post Graduate Research Fellow on a project that explores gestures with the learning of mathematical concepts by children.