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Holt, Melissa K.

[19XX]

associate professor in counseling psychology at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development and a licensed psychologist. She is also the director of the Kilachand Honors College at Boston University. Dr. Holt’s research explores how adolescents’ exposure to violence, particularly bias-based harassment (i.e. harassment based on one’s identity), influences mental health and well-being; ways in which school-based prevention programs can play a central role in reducing students’ exposures to bullying and bias-based harassment and improving school climate; and the experiences of gender diverse adolescents, with an emphasis on the ways in which contexts and systems can better support gender diverse youth and amplify youth strengths.