Dr. Salusky is a clinical-community psychologist, educator and interdisciplinary researcher focused on increasing equity within higher education and healthcare settings. She is passionate about applying research to real world problems and making social science accessible to the public. Her work broadly focuses on system level interventions to address issues of structural inequality and oppression, through an intersectional lens. Dr. Salusky’s program of research is two pronged. She currently examines educational access and equity for minoritized students in higher education settings, including those in biomedical PhD programs and first-generation college students. Dr. Salusky is also engaged in research focused on understanding how the asylum process impacts young immigrants as well as designing interventions to 1) increase knowledge about client-centered, trauma-informed care for stakeholders involved in asylum law and 2) improve medical-legal collaborations for asylum seekers.