Paulina Chin-Wong | Editor-in-Chief | pc3398@nyu.edu
Paulina Chin-Wong is a junior at NYU Steinhardt pursuing a B.S. in Applied Psychology with a specialization in Clinical Psychology and Child and Adolescent Mental Health, and a minor in Public Policy and Management. She has extensive research experience, serving as a research assistant across multiple teams throughout her undergraduate career, including the Home-School Connections Research Team, the Infant Studies of Learning and Neurocognitive Development (ISLAND) Lab, and the Psychopathology and Boredom Lab of Dr. McWelling Todman. In the summer of 2024, Paulina was also selected for the CAMS Summer Research Program, where she conducted research at NYU Langone’s Child Study Center in their Programs for Selective Mutism and Organizational and Executive Functioning under the supervision Dr. Richard Gallagher.
Her research interests lie at the intersection of pediatric neurocognitive development, clinical interventions, and systems-level improvements in healthcare access and delivery. Paulina is passionate about leveraging data-driven strategy and operations management to strengthen healthcare organizations, while simultaneously advancing the scientific understanding of developmental and psychological processes. Looking ahead, Paulina plans to apply her analytical skillset to corporate data strategy and healthcare operations management roles before returning to academia to be trained as a Clinical Pediatric Neuropsychologist. Her long term goal, is to open a private practice where she can integrate her business acumen with her clinical training.
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Dr. Adina Schick | Faculty Mentor | adina.schick@nyu.edu
Adina Schick is a Developmental Psychologist whose work to date has focused on cultural variations in children’s language, literacy, and narrative development, with a particular emphasis on the individual and combined contributions of the home and preschool contexts on these school readiness skills. Her research has probed the role of continuity in home-school book sharing practices in supporting low-income Latino Head Start children’s emergent literacy development and highlights the importance of promoting parents’ use of culturally-relevant practices. As a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at NYU’s Child and Family Policy Center, she worked on the creation of a Common Metric to link the three most commonly used preschool assessment tools, and helped develop and supervise the implementation of a large intervention aimed at professional development of early childhood educators throughout New York City, as well as from across New York State. Dr. Schick’s work has been funded by The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, The Brady Educational Foundation, and the Brooke Astor Foundation. She received her doctorate from the Department of Applied Psychology at New York University in 2012. View Dr. Schick’s full faculty profile.