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Irene Yen is the principal investigator and director of the HOPe Lab. She received her B.A. from Stanford University and her MPH and PhD from UC Berkeley. She is a social epidemiologist, a public health professor at the University of California Merced and a Robert Wood Johnson Interdisciplinary...

Brenda Castañeda-Castañeda is a Staff Research Associate in Dr. Yen’s Housing, Opportunity and Place (HOPe) Lab in the Department of Public Health. Brenda currently assists with qualitative research on the experiences of women of color and K-12 school discipline. She has collaborated on research...