Demeisha Carlton-Brown is a Ph.D. student at the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Social Work. Her research interests are: 1) multigenerational trauma amongst Black populations and 2) behavioral interventions to reduce trauma symptoms. Demeisha currently serves as an interventionist within the INSPIRED Lab for the Substance Use Prevention and Education Research (SUPER) program, which is funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).
In her former role within the Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis, she worked for the Race & Opportunity Lab where she focused on resource navigation, strategic planning, program management, staffing operations, and community-based participatory research. Demeisha graduated from Parkland Community College with an AA in Psychology prior to transferring to the University of Illinois, where she served as an undergraduate research assistant within Dr. Elizabeth Stine-Morrow’s Adult Development Lab & Dr. Robin Jarrett’s Ethnographic Research Lab.
