Rosa Conain Aguilar

Graduation Year: 2020

SDSU MA Faculty Mentor: Dr. Kristen Wells

Research Emphasis: Psychometrics and Health Disparities

Job: Doctoral Student- Research Fellow (SDSU and UCSD)   

What is the best advice you would give to someone just starting out in this Master’s program? Network with professors and use the resources available to you on campus. Lean into your support systems, and avoid making linear paths because rarely do things unfold linearly. Lean into your passions and interests, and the rest will follow. 

Fun Fact: Last semester, Rosa taught PSY 201 at SDSU 

Andrea Mustafa

Graduation Year: 2010

SDSU MA Faculty Mentor: Dr. Paul Gilbert

Research Emphasis: Cognitive functioning in people living with Huntington’s disease

Where are you now: Teaching Fellow at University of Houston

Job: Student at the University of Houston clinical psychology PhD, neuropsychology track

What is the best advice you would give to someone just starting out in this Master’s program? Graduate school is truly a marathon. At times, you will wonder how you got this far and if you have what it takes to achieve your goals. Always trust that you know way more than you think and you most definitely belong. You’ve got this!

Fun Fact: Andrea recently adopted a one-eyed dog named Trish! 

Dalia Tabibian

Graduation Year: 2024

SDSU MA Faculty Mentor: Dr. Miguel Illodas

Research Emphasis: Child Development

Job: Health Study Coordinator at Apple 

What is the best advice you would give to someone just starting out in this Master’s program? Make sure to take advantage of as many opportunities as you can while still in school and have support from the MA program! (I.e. get involved in lots of research projects- you don’t know which one will be most relevant during PhD/job interviews)