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Wai-Ying Chow
"Strive. Survive. Thrive. These ideas are the major principles of resilience - my intended research focus."
- Alumni of: 2002 Graduate Scholarship Program
- Resides: Atlanta, GA
- Hometown: Washington, DC
- Age: 33
- Four-year College or University: George Washington University
- Graduate School: Arizona State University
- Academic/Career Pursuits: Psychology / Therapy
- Other Interests: Foreign Languages / International Study, Honor Society, Public Policy, Sciences, Sports
Biography
Wai-Ying Chow intends to pursue a doctorate in clinical psychology, specializing in adolescence and community prevention. She has a clearly defined focus, which is to learn more about children and adolescents who successfully adjust despite risk or adversity stemming from family discord, socioeconomic status, or other factors. Her goal is to identify "resiliency factors" so that she can develop a better prevention model for troubled youth.
One-on-one involvement with adolescents has always been one of Wai's passions. For five seasons, she has coached volleyball at her former high school, School Without Walls, in Washington, D.C. She also interned for a semester in a private special education school, where she worked with adolescents diagnosed with learning and emotional behavioral disorders.
Meanwhile, she developed her research skills, working as a research assistant both for her professors and at the National Institutes of Health. Wai studied abroad in the summer of 1998 at Georgetown University in Trier, Germany, and in the spring of 1999 at Peking University in Beijing, China.
Wai says of these experiences that they "not only honed my skills as a researcher, but also inspired greater curiosity as a scientist-in-training and commitment as a proponent for the understanding and well-being of adolescents."
It was natural that Wai would choose a field of study that satisfied her interests in "human behavior, direct contact with adolescents, teaching, and ultimately making a difference in people's lives on both an individual and a grand scale."
Ultimately, Wai says she wants "to work intimately with families and schools, as well as to coordinate with government and community agencies to research and implement empirically supported prevention strategies."
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