Vanisa Senesathith (Nita)
Vanisa Senesathith (Nita) is currently pursuing her Master of Science in Evidence-Based Social Intervention and Policy Evaluation at the University of Oxford. She graduated from Macalester College with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology in 2021. After that, she worked as a Research Assistant at the Trauma and Community Resilience Center at Boston Children’s Hospital on the topic of refugee trauma and mental health for two years. Nita has been volunteering as a Research Assistant with the CFL Lab since Fall 2020 and has helped with several projects in the lab such as the JUS?Media Programme and the Food, Culture, and Health Study. Ultimately, Nita hopes to pursue a PhD with a focus on the development and implementation of community-based mental health interventions in low-resource settings, particularly in Laos, her home country.