Nicole Mendoza

Nicole Mendoza is a Ph.D. student in the school of Communication & Information at Rutgers University. She obtained her B.A. degree in Communication from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her previous research focused on a stress-resilience-thriving framework regarding the undocumented immigration status of college students. Her current research focuses on the aspects of culturally grounded interpersonal communication in patient-provider relationships and health inequities among the Latino community. Her work also uses a socio-ecological and intersectional lens to better understand health inequities that exist among populations that have been made vulnerable.