Other People on the EDP Research Team

Project Manager

Jason received his B.A. in Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington in 2001 and his Master of Social Work from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2005.  Jason’s concentration in graduate school was in adult mental health and addictions, but has always had an interest in issues of diversity.  Jason became involved with the project after working as a research assistant on the project during a summer while in graduate school.  Upon graduation, instead of doing clinical social work, he decided to return to the project as the project manager.

Graduate Research Assistants

Meera Deo
deo@ucla.edu

Meera E. Deo is a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. She received her B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley with High Honors in Interdisciplinary Studies: American Cultures.  She also earned a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School.

Prior to beginning graduate studies in 2003, she worked for three years as a civil rights attorney. As a law student and attorney, she held diverse positions including: intervener and legal team member in the landmark Michigan Law School affirmative action case, Grutter v. Bollinger; international legal extern with the South African Human Rights Commission; William J. Brennan First Amendment Fellow at the ACLU's National Legal Department in New York City; and Staff Attorney for Women's Health at the California Women's Law Center. 

Ms. Deo is a recipient of the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans, the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, the UCLA Institute for American Cultures Research Grant in Ethnic Studies, and the UCLA Institute for Industrial Relations Labor & Employment Grant. As a graduate student at UCLA, she has been both a teaching assistant and a researcher. Her main research interests include students of color in higher education, cultural preservation in immigrant communities, and media representation of Asian and Pacific Islanders in the U.S. Her advisors are UCLA Professors Walter R. Allen, Min Zhou and Eddie Telles.

Nisha Gottfredson
gottfredson@unc.edu

Nisha is a doctoral student in the Quantitative Psychology department at UNC Chapel Hill. Nisha focuses on statistical techniques for analyzing nested data and for testing mediation and structural equations models. Her substantive interests lie in the areas of health behavior promotion and educational diversity. Dr. Panter is her advisor.

Henry Jay
jay@email.unc.edu

Henry Jay is a Juris Doctor candidate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law.  He also received his undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina where he majored in advertising.  His interests include real estate law, consumer protection, and entrepreneurial law.

Michael Peterman
peterman@email.unc.edu

Michael is a doctoral student in the clinical psychology program at UNC-Chapel Hill. He has a specific interest in relationship infidelity and a general interest in quantitative methodology. Michael received his B.S. in Applied Psychology from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Rachel Upton
rupton@utk.edu

Rachel D. Upton is a first-year graduate student at The University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill. Rachel is a former participant of the UNC-Chapel Hill
2005 Summer Pre-Graduate Research Experience Program, under Dr. Henry
Frierson. She is currently attending the Doctoral Program in Quantitative
Psychology. Rachel is interested in sample survey methodology, missing data
analysis, and longitudinal studies.

Undergraduate Research Assistants

Anna Cruz

Anna Cruz is a Junior at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  She is originally from Staten Island, New York and is currently pursuing a double major in Biology and Exercise and Sport Science.  Anna is involved in various other activities at UNC at Chapel Hill including biology research, intramural sports, various community service projects, and Phi Sigma Pi, National Co-ed Honor Fraternity.  After graduation, she would like to either enter medical school or graduate school for biology.  She became involved with the project after taking a seminar with Dr. Panter and becoming interested in her various research projects.

Jeff Foarde
foarde@imap.cc

Jeff Foarde is a Chapel Hill native with a background in computers and music composition, completing an undergraduate degree in Psychology in preparation for going to graduate school in the same. He has worked for IBM, RTI, and is a trained EMS professional, and is interested in pursuing a career in psychotherapy.

Web Designer

Elizabeth Lansing
lansing@unc.edu

Elizabeth received a B.A. in Psychology from Douglass College, Rutgers University. She is taking courses at UNC-Chapel Hill in Psychology and Social Work, and plans to attend graduate school for Social Work in the Fall of 2007.

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