Mattea Parker (she/her) earned her master’s degrees in Clinical Psychology and Quantitative Psychology at Ball State University in July 2025. While at Ball State, Mattea was a graduate assistant in the Personality and Psychopathology (P2) Lab. Her research focused on culturally responsive psychological assessment, suicide risk, and cultural stressors contributing to mental health difficulties in Black communities. In August 2025, Mattea began her PhD in Clinical Science at the University of California – Berkeley, where she continues to study how racial trauma and stressors contribute to mental health disparities, particularly suicide risk, among Black youth and families, under the mentorship of Dr. Jasmin Brooks Stephens.