Lucybel Mendez, MS, is a predoctoral psychology intern at the University of Illinois in Chicago and a doctoral candidate in the Clinical Psychology program at the University of Utah. Her research focuses on elucidating trajectories from traumatic experiences to behavioral and psychological wellbeing among juvenile-justice and gang-involved youth. Additionally, she focuses on examining culturally specific processes of risk and resilience. Clinically, she focuses on providing culturally responsive and trauma-informed mental health care for multilingual Latinx families and other underserved populations.