Sarah A. O. Gray
Dr. Sarah Gray is a licensed clinical psychologist and an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at University of Connecticut with a joint appointment in the Department of Psychiatry at UConn Health. She earned her B.A. in History from Yale University and completed a post-baccalaureate fellowship in early childhood development and education at the Yale Child Study Center. After teaching for several years, she earned her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Massachusetts Boston. She completed her internship and post-doctoral training in the Early Childhood program at the Yale Child Study Center and was an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Tulane University, where she also held a joint appointment in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.
Dr. Gray’s research examines the developmental consequences of early life adversity, with a specific focus on intergenerational processes. She takes a multilevel approach, integrating narrative, behavioral, and physiological measurement to understand how risk and resilience is transmitted across generations through behavioral and biological pathways, situated in relational and broader social contexts. Ultimately, she seeks to inform prevention and intervention programs that support caregivers to support young children. Her work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health (NICHD & NIMH), the Brain & Behavior Foundation, and the American Psychoanalytic Association.
Renee Lamoreau
Renee is interested in understanding how early adversity influences social-emotional development in preschool-aged children. She graduated from Tufts University in 2015, worked in education policy research for three years, and then obtained her Ed.M. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education before coming to Tulane. She is passionate about studying how interventions like Mom Power can buffer the negative effects of trauma exposure for young children and their caregivers.
Hilary Skov
Hilary is interested in understanding how biological and social factors influence children’s responses to potentially traumatic events, and how parent-child interactions can promote resilience to these stressors. Before joining the University of Connecticut's Clinical Psychology Program, Hilary got her MS in School Psychology from Tulane University and was a member of the Child and Family Lab in New Orleans. Prior to that, she graduated from Emmanuel College in 2015, taught English in Semarang, Indonesia, and worked on research improving school- and clinic-based counseling for children and adolescents in Boston, MA.
Allison Pequet
Allison is interested in how young children exposed to chronic stress and trauma navigate the social world, and how caregivers, teachers and peers influence their social-cognitive development. She is passionate about conducting research through a culturally competent and strength-based lens. Allison graduated from Texas State University in 2018 with a B.A. in Psychology. Before coming to Tulane, she worked on research studying the efficacy of a stress and coping intervention for adolescents in poverty at Pennsylvania State
Collaborators
Lab Alumni
Victoria Parker: Doctoral student, clinical psychology, University of Toronto
Erin Glackin: Staff Psychologist, Wellspring, Denver, CO
Justin Carreras: Staff Psychologist, Ochsner Medical Center, New Orleans, LA
Hannah Swerbenski: Doctoral student, developmental psychology, University of Rochester
Rebecca Lipschutz: Ph.D., clinical psychology, University of Houston, 2023; currently postdoctoral fellow at Grady Trauma Project, Emory University
Elsia Obus: Staff Psychologist, Interactive Discovery Psychological Services, Brooklyn, NY
Chloe Pickett: Staff Psychologist, Ochsner Medical Center, New Orleans, LA
Virgina Hatch: Staff Psychologist, Ochsner Medical Center, New Orleans, LA
Research Assistants
Jada Jones
Kavya Subramaniam
Arielle Morris
Cristina Miles
Kassandra Stoddard
Kelsey Lain
Megan Klecyngier
Caroline Cohen
Lily Donald
Gabby Levine
Sydney Hawkins
Mykal White