Jenny is an Assistant Clinical Program Manager and Senior Clinical Research Coordinator at the Recovery Research Institute at Massachusetts General Hospital. She earned her Bachelor’s in Psychology, with a minor in Honors Interdisciplinary Studies, from San Diego State University. Her research interests focus on psychosocial and behavioral mechanisms underlying substance use and co-occurring disorders among adolescents and emerging adults. She has experience with longitudinal and intervention-focused studies, as well as conducting systematic reviews, and aims to apply rigorous methods to inform prevention and treatment as she pursues a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology and a career as a scientist-practitioner.