Founder/CEO

Dr. Riana Elyse Anderson, PhD, LCP is a researcher, clinician, and activist with over 10 years of experience developing, evaluating, and disseminating clinical interventions and digital media that support mental health in youth of color facing racism-related stress.

Her work has been supported by the Ford Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, WT Grant Foundation, National Institutes of Health, Society for Research in Child Development, and the Michigan Health Endowment Foundation.

Dr. Anderson earned her PhD in Clinical and Community Psychology at the University of Virginia and completed a Clinical and Community Psychology Residency at Yale University's School of Medicine, a Fellowship in Applied Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, and a Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.  She is currently an Associate Professor at Columbia University and a Fellow in the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University.

Dr. Anderson was born and raised in Detroit. She enjoys all things food, sports, and travel, and is becoming increasingly addicted to cake pops.