Home department:
VCU Department of Psychology

Doctoral program:
Developmental Psychology

Faculty advisers:
Terri Sullivan, Ph.D. and Fantasy Lozada, Ph.D.

Kiara received a Bachelor’s of Science in Psychology from the Pennsylvania State University in 2022. Currently, she works on the Healthy Communities for Youth Project.

Kiara joined the Developmental Psychology PhD program in the fall of 2022. Broadly, her research interests are in how the impact of neighborhood factors, such as crime and inconsistent social support, may impact the emergence of internalizing and externalizing behavior.