Elizabeth Sanchez
969 E. 60th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
Research Interests: Immigration Policy; Latine Mental Health; Undocumented Immigrant Family Well-being; Child Development; Culturally Attuned Mental Health Interventions; Community-engaged Research; and Critical Chicana and Latin American Feminist Epistemologies and Methods
Selected Publications:
Hilado, A., Bond, M., & Sanchez, E. (2024). Predicting mental healthcare enrollment and treatment uptake among newly arrived refugees in U.S. resettlement programs. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 0(0).
Hilado, A., Charvonia, A., Martinez Aurajo, W.R., Rami, F., & Sanchez, E. (2024). Supporting migrant children in pediatric settings: Lessons learned from the U.S. migrant humanitarian crisis response. Pediatric Annals, 53(5), e171-e177.
Magan, I. M., Sanchez, E., & Munson, M.R. (2022). “I talk to myself”: Exploring the mental and emotional health experiences of Muslim Rohingya refugee adolescents. Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal.
Roth, K.B., Sanchez, E., & Musci, R. (2022). The differential relationship of common health comorbidities with acculturative experiences in United States Latinxs. SSM-Mental Health.
Sanchez, E., Philbin. S., & Ayón, C. (2021). Y el luto sigue (and the grief continues): Latinx immigrant’s experiences of ambiguous loss in the age of restrictive immigration policy. Family Relations.
Elizabeth Sanchez is a community-engaged PhD student in the Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice at the University of Chicago. Elizabeth is passionate about the intersection of immigration policy, Latine mental health, undocumented immigrant well-being, and critical Chicana feminist methods and epistemologies. Elizabeth is committed to ground-up community-engaged research in partnership with immigrant and mixed-status families. Critical Chicana feminist perspectives inspire her work.
Elizabeth’s research is informed by her past clinical experience providing culturally attuned and non-Western therapeutic support, program development, mental health consultation, and trauma-informed advocacy with undocumented immigrant families.
Elizabeth received her bachelor’s degree in Sociology and Chicane/Latine Studies from UC Irvine and her master’s degree from the University of Chicago’s School of Social Service Administration. She is fluent in English and Spanish.