Michelle V. Porche, Ed.D., is Professor In-Residence at UC Riverside Department of Internal Medicine in the School of Medicine, and Director of Clinical Faculty Research and Scholarly Activity. Her research on children and adolescents includes the socio-emotional correlates of academic achievement, primarily using mixed-methods approaches. Recent work includes the study of adversity and trauma on risk of high school dropout and related educational outcomes; the association between trauma and substance use for adolescents related to mental health and academic outcomes; and parent programming to support education and adjustment of resettled immigrant and refugee youth. She is Co-Investigator on the NIMH funded study By Youth, For Youth: Digital Supported Peer Navigation for Addressing Child Mental Health Inequities, a collaboration between UC Riverside and UCLA with youth receiving services in primary care and school-based mental health centers. Her research with adults includes academic partnership with CANA (Cultura y Arte Nativa de las Americas in the San Francisco Mission District) for the Somos Esenciales: Community Revitalization and Health Through Arts and Entrepreneurship study funded by NIH ComPASS to develop and test structural interventions. Other work with adults includes collaborative work on a medical education curriculum on substance use and treatment funded by SAMHSA, an an evaluation of a contingency management intervention for individuals with substance use disorder and justice involvement; this population also may have severe mental illness, and housing and/or employment instability.