Pooja Bhanushali
Graduate Student, Community and Applied Developmental Psychology
Psychology
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About
Pooja Bhanushali is a first year PhD student in the Community and Applied Developmental Psychology program at UIC. She has pursued her Bachelor’s in Psychology from St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai and holds a Masters in Counseling Psychology from S.N.D.T University, India. Pooja has been an SEL Fellow at a non profit organization, Apni Shala Foundation, facilitating SEL workshops for over 250 students from Mumbai Public Schools and their educators and caregivers. Here, she also led an Action Research project, exploring the impact of mindfulness on second graders' self regulation and empathy skills. Her research interest involves ways in which mindfulness is used as an SEL intervention for specific developmental ages and culturally diverse populations.