Maria Sobrino is a research assistant working on developing and implementing bottom-up, technology-driven interventions to address substance use during the perinatal and postpartum period.
Before joining the team, Maria served a project coordinator at the Developmental Social Neuroscience Lab at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she worked on investigating the social and neural correlates undergirding risk-taking behaviors among adolescents in North Carolina. She graduated from the University of Florida with dual bachelor’s degrees in English and psychology, and is currently a social psychology doctoral student at the City University of New York. Maria is interested in using strengths and community-based approaches to investigate the social and structural context of substance use and disease transmission, and in utilizing harm reduction frameworks to develop scalable interventions.