Biography
Sunah has been a Senior Researcher at Tisch College since 2021, where she develops creative evaluation strategies and effective assessment systems to support the college’s mission and values. As an Asian, female, and non-U.S. citizen researcher in the U.S. context, her work reflects a commitment to bridging academic research with local communities, informing policy, and creating innovative intervention strategies that support students and partners from all backgrounds and identities. Before joining Tisch, she completed an NIH-funded T32 postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, where she employed diverse methodologies to assess psychosocial stress across developmental stages and cultural contexts, aiming to reduce health disparities in mental health outcomes. Sunah holds a B.A. in Social and Cultural Communication from the University of Washington, an Ed.M. in Human Development and Psychology from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and a Ph.D. in Child Study and Human Development from Tufts University. Beyond her professional achievements, she is a developmental psychologist, community-based researcher, wife, daughter, sister, aunt, and mother to a warm-hearted daughter and the most adorable furry dog in the world.