Co-Founder - Nuha Alshabani, PhD

Nuha Alshabani (she/her) is a researcher, educator,  and advocate whose work is grounded in the values of curiosity, social justice, community, and cultural humility. Across clinical, research, and educational settings, she focuses on trauma, oppression, resilience, and culturally responsive approaches to mental health care. Nuha has worked in a range of clinical settings, including academic medical centers, community health centers, and universities, with a specialization in trauma and related concerns. Her research takes a socioecological and community-engaged approach to understanding how trauma, oppression, and cultural context shape mental health and well-being among marginalized communities. Her research focuses on intergenerational trauma and resilience, culturally responsive trauma interventions, and strategies to improve equity, accessibility, and engagement in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) care. Across projects, she integrates mixed methods, implementation science, and community partnerships to develop research and interventions that are grounded in community strengths, lived experience, and social justice.

Nuha earned her undergraduate degree in Psychology and Organizational Leadership from Baldwin Wallace University in 2015. She then completed a year of service with AmeriCorps, responding to national disasters across the United States. She then earned her master's degree and doctorate in Counseling Psychology from The University of Akron in 2022. She completed her predoctoral internship at Denver Health Medical Center and went on to complete the Trauma in Context postdoctoral fellowship at Boston Medical Center and Boston University.

Resham Gellatly (she/her) is a licensed clinical psychologist whose program of research centers on expanding access to quality mental health care for marginalized communities not equitably served by mental health systems, including immigrants and refugees. Informed by anti-racist and anti-colonialist approachs, she collaborates with community partners to design and test interventions aimed at reducing barriers to psychological treatments and increasing scalability among culturally diverse populations using principles of implementation science. Resham has extensive experience in training non-specialist health workers to deliver interventions and specializes in conducting mixed methods research to investigate how culture and context impact the adoption and sustainability of evidence-based treatments.

Resham received her B.A. in Psychology from Boston University. After graduating, she completed a Fulbright fellowship in India and later worked as a clinical research coordinator at the New York University Child Study Center, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and University of Pennsylvania under the mentorship of Dr. Aaron Beck. Resham earned her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles and completed her predoctoral internship at UCLA’s Semel Institute for Neuroscience & Human Behavior and the Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital. Her postdoctoral fellowship at Boston Medical Center focused on immigrant and refugee mental health. Resham maintains an affiliate faculty appointment at the Boston University Center on Forced Displacement.