Jazzmyn Ward

M.A.

(she/her/hers)

is a doctoral student clinician for the Healing Center, UCSB Counseling Center, and Santa Barbara Middle School. In the Clinical Psychology program, she works as a researcher with Dr. Erika Felix.

Prior to attending UCSB, she double majored in Psychology and Criminology with a minor in African American Studies at UC Irvine. Jazzmyn then went on to complete her master’s degree in Clinical Psychology at California State University, Northridge where she studied community violence and ethnic racial socialization among marginalized populations.

Broadly, Jazzmyn is interested in variations of trauma exposure and its effects on mental health among marginalized populations particularly in the Black community. Furthermore, Jazzmyn also has interests in resiliency and protective factors related to holistic healing.