Shelby Peterson
I graduated from The University of Nevada, Reno and received my bachelor’s degree in HDFS and a minor in Psychology. After graduation, I moved to beautiful British Columbia, Canada for an 18-month service mission where I was able to interact with a variety of people and cultures. I am a second-year graduate student in the HDFS MS program at The University of Nevada, Reno where I’ve had the opportunity to teach and assist in courses and participate in research to prepare me for my future career. After I graduate, I hope to become a Certified Family Life Educator and work in higher education so I can continue teaching and doing research on what the best developmental practices are for individuals and families. |
Elizabeth Miller
Elizabeth's research interests include marriage, parenting, and Bowen's Family Systems Theory. As a wife and mother, these topics are especially relevant to her, and she enjoys applying what she learns about these topics to her own life. She currently writes for the parenting website genes2teens.com. She enjoys writing in this capacity and looks forward to becoming a Certified Family Life Educator upon earning her master's degree in HDFS. In her future professional path, she plans to focus her family life education efforts on motherhood and marriage as informed by Bowen's theory and research-based practice. |
Rose Steffen
I am a second year graduate student at UNR in the HDFS MS program. I graduated in the HDFS program with my Bachelor’s degree in Spring of 2016. I jumped right into my Master’s program the next semester. I started out in Education as a degree, but switched to HDFS while I was in my first HDFS 201 course. I have a passion for working with families, helping where help is needed, and learning as much as I can along the way. This research has a special interest for me because I am interested in becoming a home visitor and working with families of all kinds one day and this is only the beginning. I hope to learn from home visitors and families that they work with through this research and apply it to my future endeavors. |
Sergio Trejo Jr.
I am a first year Master of Public Health student, with an Epidemiology focus, who was born and raised in Las Vegas, Nevada. I graduated from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in May 2016 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Biology. Throughout my undergraduate career, I had the pleasure of running Healthy Smiles, a program at the Boys and Girls club that aims at helping children develop healthy habits. This program taught me the importance of instilling these behaviors and the impact that parental involvement has on a child's health. My ultimate goal is to be a primary care physician, so I can instill these behaviors to entire communities. If these behaviors are kept, then the chances of developing potentially fatal diseases will decrease substantially. I want to focus on rural communities since these are the areas that need the most help. A few facts about me: I have participated in 5 tough mudders, I have studied abroad in Madrid Spain, and I enjoying traveling the world and exploring new locales. |