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Dr. Elise Anguizola Assaf is a communications professor within the Department of Communications here at California State University, Fullerton. As an assistant professor in the undergraduate program, she has taught hundreds of students public relations courses. She has a Ph.D. in Education from Chapman University, along with a M.A. and a B.A. in Communications with an emphasis in public relations from Cal State Fullerton.

We chose Dr. Assaf to interview because her studies overlap with our research topic about college students, mental health and the stereotypes that surround it. We want to study and discover which elements have contributed to the rise of mental health issues within college students since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in March of 2020. Assaf offers amazing advice and insight about how to study the mental health space. For word count purposes we have shortened her answers below.