Dr. Mei Ki Chan

Biography

Mei-ki (Maggie) Chan is an Assistant Professor at the School of Education, University of California, Berkeley. She previously served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Utah State University from 2023 to 2025. Chan earned her Ph.D. in Combined Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2023, completing a pre-doctoral internship with the Hawai‘i Psychology Internship Consortium. She is a Nationally Certified School Psychologist. Her research focuses on advancing equity in education, particularly in practices, systems, and school contexts that support culturally diverse students. Her work emphasizes school-based mental health services and intergroup interactions within K-12 educational settings, investigating the effectiveness of existing social-emotional and behavioral screeners for identifying the strengths and needs of students from minoritized backgrounds. Chan conducts research syntheses to inform the translation of school-based mental health science into equitable practices. She explores the individual, interpersonal, and contextual factors that shape intergroup interactions in schools, promoting inclusive learning environments. Her scholarship, grounded in interdisciplinary theories and diverse methodologies, aims to support the implementation of universal and targeted strategies to advance educational equity and disrupt systemic inequities. Chan's work has been published in prominent journals such as Educational Psychologist and Developmental Psychology, and she serves on the editorial boards of several journals, including School Psychology Review. She was selected as an Editorial Fellow for School Psychology Review and is the recipient of the APA Division 16 Outstanding Dissertation Award (2023) and the SSSP Early Career Research Award (2024).

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