Gabriela Muñoz De Zubiría, MSEd

Gabriela Muñoz De Zubiría is a Counseling Psychology doctoral student at Fordham University. She was born in Santiago, Chile to Colombian and Peruvian parents and lived in Caracas, Venezuela prior to moving to the United States in December 2001. Before joining Fordham in 2018, she completed her BS in Psychology at Florida State University. Gabi’s identity as a Hispanic immigrant has strongly influenced her educational, research, and career trajectories. Specifically, her research interests

include the help seeking attitudes of undocumented immigrants, the dynamics of mixed-status families, and counseling resources that help combat the negative psychological impacts of an unauthorized status. Her current research apprenticeship project aims to examine attitudes about status disclosure for members of Latinx mixed-status families. She is completing her externship at the Counseling Services Center at John Jay College of Criminal Justice providing individual short-term psychotherapy to college students. Her main professional goal is to serve Hispanic college students as a staff psychologist at a university counseling center.