Joy Nnadi (B.A. psychology, UPEI) is currently enrolled in the UPEI Doctor of Psychology (PsyD) program (class 2024). She completed her undergraduate work in psychology at UPEI. Her honours research thesis focused on how the stress of belonging to more than one culture impacts the mental health, academic performance, and feelings of achievement in international students. She has experience as a teaching and research assistant, as team lead for an Early Childhood Education program, and as a facilitator certified to implement the Handle with Care Program— a program geared towards empowering parents and their children. Joy is actively involved in several community based activities. In the past she has organised several campus events including the Atlantic Council for International Cooperation’s 2020 International Development week, acted as a youth delegate and facilitator for Community Foundations Canada on the future of work, and with the Atlantic Summer Institute Forum on supportive environments for child and youth mental health. She currently co-facilitates the HeART and Mind group with Shadi Shabi Khani, a strengths-based intervention dedicated to support UPEI international students’ mental health through arts and other expressive mediums. She also co-facilitates a mental health support group for BIPOC. Her interests surround clinical psychological practices related to immigrants, BIPOC, and children.