Biography
PhD Student in Counseling Psychology.
Research Interests
Reproductive justice; Critical Consciousness; Radical Healing; Radical Hope; Critical Psychologies; Liberation Psychology; Critical Race Studies; Multiply-marginalized peoples; Reproductive Oppression; Queer Muslims; Latine and SWANA peoples and psychologies.
Education
Graduate Education | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- PhD in Educational Psychology; Counseling Psychology | In Progress
Graduate Education | The Chicago School
- M.A. in Counseling Psychology, graduated with distinction | June 2021
- Latinx Mental Health Concentration
Undergraduate Education | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- B.S. in Psychology| May 2018
- Minor in Latina/o Studies
Grants
2026 Grants-in-Aid Recipient Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues
Awards and Honors
2026 Distinguished Student Research Award, The Society for the Psychological Study of Culture, Ethnicity and Race, a Division of the American Psychological Association
2026 Outstanding Advocacy Contributions in Counseling Psychology, Student Affiliates of Seventeen of the American Psychological Association
2026 Robert L Mendelson Award, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign College of Education
2025 Reproductive Justice Fellow, HEART to Grow
2023 Graduate College Fellowship, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Graduate College
2023 Fall 2023 List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign College of Education
2021 Distinguished Graduate Award, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology
Courses Taught
LLS100: Intro Latina/Latino Studies (TA)
EPSY409: Mental Health and Ways of Coping for Teachers (Instructor of Record)
EPSY202: Exploring Cultural Diversity (TA)
Additional Campus Affiliations
Department of Educational Psychology at the College of Education at Illinois.
Recent Publications
Hoang, T. M. H., Wong, A., Baines, H., DeLuna, R., Merriweather, C. M., & Santoyo, A. (2026). Patient-Reported Experiences of Abortion Travel. JAMA Network Open, 9(8), e2627603.
DeLuna, R., Neville, H. A., & Hoang, T.-M. H. (2026). From collective restriction to critical action: The indirect effects of critical motivation and radical hope. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 17, 1748499. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2026.1748499
Hoang, T. M. H., DeLuna, R., Albertson, E., Wong, A., Santoyo, A., & Ferrara, T. (2025). Beyond Boundaries: Navigating challenges and charting the future of reproductive healthcare in the post-Roe landscape. American Journal of Public Health.
Goertz, M. T., Adames, H. Y., Parker, C., Chavez-Dueñas, N. Y., DeLuna, R., & Perez-Chavez, J. G. (2024). The decolonial mentoring framework: Advancing an anticolonial future in psychology and beyond. In L. Comas-Díaz, H. Y. Adames, & N. Y. Chavez-Dueñas (Eds.), Decolonial psychology: Toward anticolonial theories, research, training, and practice. (pp. 247–269). American Psychological Association.