Erika Gustafson is a doctoral candidate in clinical psychology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Broadly, her research focuses on community-based interventions to promote healthy psychological development for children and families in communities of urban poverty. Her specific research interests include broadening the boundaries of mental health treatment through a focus on upstream ecological factors impacting mental health (i.e. the social determinants of health), non-traditional service providers such as community health workers, community settings such as schools and community organizations, and Latinx mental health. She has conducted qualitative and quantitate research with community health workers examining their processes of parental engagement, as well as with homeless youth examining their executive functioning. Her dissertation examines the relationship between social determinants of health and youth mental health by linking electronic medical record data with a range of neighborhood-level community data. Erika is also an active advocate for promoting diversity within the field, having served as co-chair of the Diversity Advancement Committee within her clinical program.