Rachelle Gamboa, Project Coordinator
Connect with Rachelle if you don’t know where to start or are looking for help figuring things out.
Rachelle studies psychology and sociology at Temple University. Her research journey began as an undergraduate research assistant in Temple University’s Adaptive Memory Lab, researching memory-guided decision-making. Rachelle then volunteered as a research intern at the Children’s Equity Project and assisting in early childhood education policy research finding passion in applied research. Rachelle is an undergraduate research intern at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) where she is conducting her honors thesis research on evidence-based mental health interventions in urban schools, deepening her commitment to neurodivergent children with improved, accessible mental health services.
She is a first and like firsts, figures everything out.
As a Filipino American and first-generation college student, Rachelle is passionate about addressing educational inequities, particularly for marginalized communities. She plans to pursue graduate school to gain the technical and experiential skills necessary to contribute to research and policy through an administrative lens.
