Biography
Jordyn R. Ricard is a Ph.D. candidate in clinical psychology. Her research examines how exposure to community violence shapes mental health outcomes. She also examines how structural interventions can mitigate the negative effects of community violence, with the goal of promoting safer communities, improving well-being, and reducing pathways into the legal system. As an ISPS fellow, she is investigating how psychological adaptations to community and structural threat interact to confer risk for mental health problems. Prior to Yale, she earned her B.S. from the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University.