Forging Caminos

Maciel Campos, PsyD, is an assistant professor of clinical psychology in the Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry at Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC). She is also program director of NYC Health + Hospitals/Kings County in Brooklyn, New York. She was formerly senior clinical psychologist and program director of the Home-Based Crisis Intervention program of the Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of New York-Presbyterian, which provides high-quality psychiatric care to adolescents and children in Washington Heights, Inwood, West Harlem, and surrounding areas. She developed an experiential rotation for child psychiatry fellows and child psychology interns in the delivery of evidence-based treatments from a systems and cultural-humility perspective. Dr. Campos received her doctoral degree in clinical psychology from Adler University in Chicago.

Yessenia Mejia, PsyD, is a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at New York University’s Grossman School of Medicine and program manager at NYU Langone Hospital in Brooklyn. Dr. Mejia received her doctorate from the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology at Yeshiva University in New York. She was formerly a staff psychologist at New York-Presbyterian Hospital and a postdoctoral fellow at CUIMC.

Andrés Consoli is a professor in the Department of Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology at UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz Graduate School of Education, where he serves as a member of the Advisory Committee of the Developing Hispanic-Serving Institutions Program. Dr. Consoli was born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he received a licenciatura degree in clinical psychology at the Universidad de Belgrano. He earned a masters and doctorate in counseling psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and received postdoctoral training in behavioral medicine in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University’s School of Medicine. He is a visiting professor at the Universidad del Valle in Guatemala (2004-present) in their Masters and Doctoral programs and a licensed psychologist in California. He was formerly professor and associate chair of the Department of Counseling, College of Health and Social Sciences, at San Francisco State University.