Biography

Karen Minero is a licensed clinical psychologist who has devoted her career to working with undergraduate and graduate students. She has been working at UCLA for over 20 years to promote and safeguard the psychological well-being and safety of undergraduate and graduate students. For 8 years, at both USC and UCLA, Dr. Minero’s focus was on sexual violence prevention and education. Subsequently, for the past 14 years she has focused on threat assessment and violence prevention on campus. Moreover, Dr. Minero has many years of experience assisting students in crisis from the following under-represented/vulnerable student populations, including: undocumented students; international students; BIPOC identified students; LGBTQ identified students; those who identify as having a disability; those in financial crisis; survivors of sexual assault, stalking and intimate partner violence; and individuals with mental health diagnoses. In addition to safeguarding individuals and the campus community by providing suicide assessments and assessments to determine potential threat to others, she has provided thoughtful, compassionate counsel to students throughout her career and has gone above and beyond to advocate for their needs.