Goleen Samari is a William T. Grant Scholar investigating how xenophobic policies mitigate or exacerbate health services utilization and outcomes for U.S.- and foreign-born young women of immigrant origins. Samari has directly mentored or advised more than 50 graduate students. Samari co-founded and co-directed the Mentoring of Students and Igniting Community (MOSAIC) program at Columbia University, growing it from 26 mentees in 2019 to over 400 mentees in 2023. Samari will use this award to obtain formal training in the mentorship of underrepresented junior scholars, develop practices to support skills-based mentorship in analysis and writing, cultivate practices to maintain boundaries that promote mentorship and wellbeing, and develop administrative support to make institutional changes regarding mentorship. Samari’s mentee, Behnan Albahsahi is a doctoral student at the University of Southern California. Albahsahi’s goals include becoming an established authority on adolescent and young adult immigrant health, gaining expertise in quantitative and qualitative methods, and building her publication record. Albahsahi will support Samari’s Scholars project. With Samari’s guidance, Albahsahi will code state-level immigration policy trends, conduct qualitative interviews with immigrant youth, thematically code interview data, and use advanced multilevel modeling techniques to explore empirical links between immigration policies and reproductive health outcomes. Albahsahi will be the first author on one publication and a co-author on two others.
With this award, Samari to obtain formal training in the mentorship of underrepresented junior scholars, develop practices to support skills-based mentorship in analysis and writing, cultivate practices to maintain boundaries that promote mentorship and wellbeing, and develop administrative support to make institutional changes regarding mentorship.
