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Mya Harris

Durham,NC

Summary

Immigrant Home English Learning Program (IHELP)

Durham, NC

  • Worked with adult immigrants & refugees to provide individualized, in-home English education.

Grow Your World

Durham, NC

  • Tutored K-12 students ESL students in mathematics, science, and english language arts.

Overview

3
3
years of professional experience

Work History

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Mind & Culture Lab
Durham, NC
08.2024 - Current
  • Collaborating on research exploring how human behavior, preferences, and decision-making are shaped across diverse cultural environments, with a focus on the role of culture in human development.

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Bass Connections
Durham, NC
08.2024 - Current
  • Collaborating on a global research project aimed at addressing mental health disparities through culturally adapted family-based interventions in both low- and high-income countries (LMICs and HICs).
  • Contributing to the adaptation, and testing of the Coping Together-Latinx intervention, working closely with community members to prototype and refine program materials.

Global Fellow

Duke Global Fellows
Durham, NC
01.2024 - Current
  • Successfully completed biweekly seminars and coursework on global competence and intercultural engagement.
  • Designing mental health resource guide as capstone project for international students.

Diversity, Inclusion & Excellence Student Advisor

Office of University Scholars & Fellows
Durham, NC
09.2023 - Current
  • Partnered with OUSF staff to devise programming events and initiatives that mirrored university values and priorities.
  • Worked with multiple scholarship cohorts to pinpoint areas of concern.

Vice President of Durham Outreach

Gente Aprendiendo Para Neuvas Oportunidades (GANO)
01.2022 - Current
  • Strengthened community center connections as a Duke liaison, facilitating recruitment of Spanish-speaking adults for GANO English lessons.
  • Organized community events tailored to community members' interests, including a Q&A session with an immigration attorney.

Healthcare Consultant Intern

Marsh & McLennan
St Louis, MO
06.2024 - 08.2024
  • Uploaded client health insurance programs into Intellify, a comprehensive data network used for streamlined analysis.
  • Assisted in calculating disruption reports and completing national survey benchmarks, helping clients compare their benefits packages to market competition for informed decision-making.

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Bass Connections
Durham, NC
08.2023 - 07.2024
  • Utilized Nvivo software for qualitative and thematic analysis on Spanish focus group transcriptions.
  • Contributed to the development of a comprehensive policy toolkit aimed at using community-informed data to increase Latinx health insurance enrollment.
  • Co-authored a policy brief, pending publication, that consolidates the most pressing themes from the data for use by policymakers and community health workers.

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Imagination & Modal Cognition Lab
Durham, NC
08.2022 - 05.2023
  • Designed and implemented a Python program to administer experimental tasks, including questions focused on the visual system and optical illusions.
  • Attended sessions on research methods and experiment coding training, enhancing technical skills and methodological rigor.

Cognitive Neuroscience Research Intern

Duke Institute for Brain Sciences
Durham, NC
08.2022 - 12.2022
  • Collaborated on a semester-long research project focused on the psychology of causal judgement and counter factual thinking.
  • Developed an elementary python program for administering experimental questions related to the visual system and optical illusions.

Intern

Simmons Hanly Conroy
Alton, IL
05.2022 - 08.2022
  • Collaborated with medical investigators to ensure the accuracy and completeness of mesothelioma records for ongoing litigation.
  • Summarized depositions, extracting key legal arguments and factual details to assist attorneys in case preparation.
  • Conducted in-depth database research to address case-specific inquiries, identifying critical information that supported the development of legal strategies.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Neuroscience & Psychology

Duke University, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Durham, NC
05-2025

Conference Presentations

"Community-Centered Solutions to Increase Enrollment among la Comunidad Latina in North Carolina" Academy Health 2024 Annual Convention.

"Medicaid Enrollment in LatinX Populations as a Facilitator of Mental Health" Duke Global Mental Health Conference. 

Timeline

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Mind & Culture Lab
08.2024 - Current

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Bass Connections
08.2024 - Current

Healthcare Consultant Intern

Marsh & McLennan
06.2024 - 08.2024

Global Fellow

Duke Global Fellows
01.2024 - Current

Diversity, Inclusion & Excellence Student Advisor

Office of University Scholars & Fellows
09.2023 - Current

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Bass Connections
08.2023 - 07.2024

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Imagination & Modal Cognition Lab
08.2022 - 05.2023

Cognitive Neuroscience Research Intern

Duke Institute for Brain Sciences
08.2022 - 12.2022

Intern

Simmons Hanly Conroy
05.2022 - 08.2022

Vice President of Durham Outreach

Gente Aprendiendo Para Neuvas Oportunidades (GANO)
01.2022 - Current

Bachelor of Science - Neuroscience & Psychology

Duke University, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences

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