Forging Caminos

Maciel Campos, PsyD, is the program director for the New York City Health and Hospitals Kings County Behavioral Health Child and Adolescent Outpatient Psychiatry Department in Brooklyn, NY. She holds a voluntary clinical assistant professor appointment at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University. She earned her doctoral degree at the Adler University in Chicago, IL. She completed a clinical predoctoral internship at the Columbia University Medical Center, where she continued to work as a licensed psychologist and program director. Dr. Campos is a bilingual English-Spanish speaking psychologist who accompanies bilingual English-Spanish speaking Latinx families living in the United States.

Yessenia Mejia, PsyD, is a bilingual-bicultural clinical assistant professor in the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at New York University's Grossman School of Medicine and program manager at the Family Health Centers of NYU Langone in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. Dr. Mejia received her doctorate from the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology at Yeshiva University in New York. She was formerly a staff psychologist at New York-Presbyterian Hospital and a postdoctoral fellow at CUIMC. Dr. Mejia also serves as a cochair for the National Latinx Psychological Association’s Bilingual Issues in Latinx Mental Health Special Interest Group.

Andrés Consoli, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology at the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) and a licensed psychologist in California. Dr. Consoli was professor and associate chair of the Department of Counseling at San Francisco State University. He was raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he received a licenciatura degree in clinical psychology at the Universidad de Belgrano. He earned a masters and doctorate in counseling psychology at UCSB and received postdoctoral training in behavioral medicine in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University's School of Medicine.