Yadira (HMB Fellow 2024-2025) earned an M.S.W. in Interpersonal Practice in Integrated Health, Mental Health & Substance Abuse and a B.S. in Biopsychology, Cognition & Neuroscience from the University of Michigan. Former Lab Manager of the CASA Lab (UM). She studies how adverse childhood experiences shape brain/behavioral development and how policy, community, and family intersect in youth well-being.
Submitted and Accepted
Leonard, A. F., Estrada, Y., Jakubowski, K., & Medrano, A. S. (2025). Two Fronts of Trauma: The Differential Effects of Intimate Partner Violence and Community Violence on PTSD in Rural Mexico. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. https://doi.org/10.1177/08862605251375422
Presentations and Conferences
Estrada, Y., Medina, C., & Medrano, A. S. (Upcoming August 2026). Sexual Orientation and Dating Violence: A Between Group Analysis of Mexican Junior High Students [Poster Presentation]. SRCD 2026 Global Forum, Utrecht, Netherlands.
Estrada, Y., Cisneros, G., & Medrano, A. S. (2025, June 27). Religiosity and Folk Illness Beliefs: Mental Health Help-Seeking in Rural Mexico [Poster Presentation]. SPSSI 2025 Conference, Portland, OR.
Estrada, Y., Leonard, A. F., Jakubowski, K. P., & Medrano, A. S. (2025, June 12). Two Fronts of Trauma: The Differential Effects of Intimate Partner Violence and Community Violence on PTSD in Rural Mexico [Poster Presentation]. Psychiatry Research Day 2025, Pittsburgh, PA.
Publications
Leonard, A. F., Estrada, Y., Jakubowski, K., & Medrano, A.S. (2025). Two fronts of trauma: The differential effects of intimate partner violence and community violence on PTSD in rural Mexico. Journal of Interpersonal Violence.https://doi.org/10.1177/08862605251375422
