Rayven L. Peterson, M.S.

🚨new publication alertttt 🚨 my second first-author publication just dropped! check it out below. #healthequity #substanceuse #narcan #blackacademic pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40674031/

#ABPsi next week! my first time attending and i’m so excited. looking forward to the dope sessions!

4th year of the phd taught me: never limit yourself, in any capacity. if you want to do it, just do it, lol. put yourself out there and see if someone will bite. if they bite, we all eating!!

i have officially entered the member checking phase of my data analysis process. super excited to see if we hit the nail on the head with our findings…..and to show them some dope poems we made

pretty dope seeing Dr. Miles work in a Black owned book store in Cali 👏🏾👏🏾 @CoreyMiles__

airport reads :) — a little inspiration for the dissertation

I heard the College on Problems of Drug Dependence (#CPDD25) was THEE hottest conference to go to for substance use research, so I co-presented an oral session. 🤭 Biggest shout out to Mona G for leading a dope paper about #polysubstance use among African American women.

OH, forgot to update that signature, big candidate not the little one 😂✨:

it was a pleasure to complete my 3-day youth mental health first-aid instructor training. i am now certified to train adults who work and/or are in community with youth. holla at your girl! #ymhfa #mhfa

this is unsettling to my spirit.

Ya just gonna keep ignoring silencing and erasing Black immigrants who face disproportionate rates of deportation and family separation in this moment, I see.

i miss spelman so much, the depth of conversations and debates has yet to be matched 🤞🏾 goal is to become a professor there in the future, i’m coming back home sooner or later. 💙

Meet Dr. Briona Simone Jones, the Audre Lorde Visiting Professor of Queer Studies at Spelman College. A Rochester, NY native, Dr. Jones was drawn to Spelman for its iconic Women’s Research & Resource Center and Archives. “Spelman’s program is innovative, radical, and one of the…