My name is Raquel Rose (she/they/dem) and I am a clinical-counseling psychologist. My research utilizes a social epidemiological and abolition framework to understand the impact of trauma, gendered racism, and carceral systems on the trajectories of Black girls across the world.  I am a T32 Postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Psychiatry at yale university. I dedicate my career to developing culturally mindful, youth centered, mental health interventions that address racial trauma, incarceration, and suicide in Black communities. My work is rooted in my identity as a Black woman of the Pan-African diaspora. I was born in London and raised in a small town of Jamaica, WI by Jamaican parents and grandparents. I moved to New York City by at age 11, deeply impacting how I view and interact with systems, cultures, and communities. I speak English and Jamaican patois fluently. 

I completed my undergraduate education at Stony Brook University, my doctoral education at New York University and I spent my last year in Connecticut while completing my final degree requirement - a clinical community predoctoral internship at Yale University School of Medicine. 

Outside of academia I am a cat mom, artist, and fascinated by mushrooms/fungi