Meet the editors

Erick Guerrero completed his doctoral degree at the University of Chicago in 2009. In 2016. Dr Guerrero received tenure as Associate Professor at the University of Southern California. Since 2018, he has been serving as the Founder and Director at the I-LEAD Institute, a research, consulting, and training firm. Dr Guerrero has a background in clinical psychology and organizational behavior. As a clinician, he has provided counsel-

ing to individuals, couples, and families for the past 23 years. As an organizational researcher, Dr Guerrero has published more than 60 peer-reviewed manuscripts and 2 books on implementation of evidence-based practices in human service organizations. Dr Guerrero currently leads international consortiums across several industries to help improve health care systems worldwide.

Tenie Khachikian received her PhD in Psychology at the University of California, Merced, in 2018. She has an M.S.W. in Social Work from the University of Southern California and her B.A. in Sociology from the University of California, Los Angeles. She has a background and experience in examining sociocultural factors particularly focused on health disparities and culturally responsive interventions. She has worked on several federally funded

research studies that focus on improving health outcomes for racial and ethnic minority populations. During her doctoral program, she focused on exploring parent motivations to discuss unhealthy eating and marijuana use with their children, by developing and implementing health communications to motivate parent and child discussions on health-risk behaviors, in an effort to lessen these behaviors.
