Contact Email: cp1391@georgetown.edu
Laboratory Website: Community Research Group
Cesar graduated from the University of California Riverside, where they graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology. As an undergraduate, they worked as a research assistant for both the Emotion Regulation and the Riverside Social Spatial Cognition labs, where they contributed to projects examining emotion socialization and cross-race face recognition. After graduating, they worked as a grant and legal assistant for the San Bernardino Legal Aid Society, assisting low-income families in navigating and accessing legal resources. Cesar’s research interests focus on how real-world social dynamics shape emotional development and regulation, particularly within underserved and underrepresented communities. Specifically, they are interested in how community environments and support systems promote the development of adaptive emotion regulation strategies, linking individual emotional development to broader social and community contexts.