Mona Goggins (she/her) graduated magna cum laude from Ball State University in July 2021 with a Bachelor of Science in Psychological Science and Applied Behavior Analysis. She spent the 2021–2022 academic year as a post-baccalaureate research assistant in the Personality and Psychopathology (P2) Lab, where she managed coding of treatment monitoring data for projects conducted in collaboration with the Youth Opportunity Center. During this time, Mona also completed a research project examining whether MMPI-A-RF scale scores predicted treatment rapport as rated by youth and their therapists. She presented this work at the Annual MMPI Research Symposium in June 2022. Mona is now pursuing her PhD in School Psychology at the University of Kentucky, where her research focuses on reducing barriers to substance use treatment among Black American youth.
