Biographical Sketch
Victor Junior Figuereo
MSW/Ph.D. Student
Boston College
Education
MA in Clinical Psychology, Ball State University ‘14
BA in Psychology, Clark University ’12
Career Goals
Victor’s career goals include improving mental health of underrepresented groups and populations, reducing mental
health disparities among underrepresented groups and population, and improving U.S. and world race-relations.
Research Interests
Racial microagressions; Diversity-related course processes and outcomes; Acculturative factors of mental health;
Culturally-adaptive mental health treatment
Organization Affiliations
Ronald E. McNair Graduate Opportunity Scholar
Awards and Fellowships
Boston College Social Work Doctoral Fellowship; Outstanding Contribution to Intercultural Programming (2012);
ALANA Student Leadership Award (2012); Honors in Psychology (2012)
Teaching Experience
Graduate Teaching Assistant for Undergraduate Statistics course, Department of Psychological Science, Ball State
University, Muncie, IN; Graduate Teaching Assistant for Undergraduate Social Psychology course, Department of
Psychological Science, Ball State University, Muncie, IN
Research Experience
Independent investigations included a) student interpretations of racial microaggressions, b) help-seeking attitudes
as a mediating factor for acculturation and willingness to seek help, and c) gender differences in the relationship
between acculturation and depression.
Collaborative projects included a) source effect studies exploring how students evaluate African American
professors and White professors presenting race-related information, b) privilege and inequality framing studies of
instructors teaching about inequalities associated with race, gender, sexual orientation, and appearance, and c) helpseeking behavior among low-income, clinically depressed, Latino men.
Selected Presentations
Littleford, L. N., Yang, K. L., Figuereo, V. J., and Back, T. D. (May 2014). European/White American
Students’ Perceptions of Instructors Teaching about White Privilege: “Just Because I’m White Doesn’t Mean I’m
Privileged”. Poster presented at the 86th Annual Meeting Midwestern Psychological Association.
Littleford, L. N., Subedi, P., Walker, R., King, F., & Figuereo, V. J. (May 2013). Do Students’
Acknowledgements of Racial/Ethnic Privilege Depend on the Instructor’s Race/Ethnicity? Poster presented at the
85th Annual Meeting Midwestern Psychological Association.
Figuereo, V. J., & Cardemil, E. V. (Oct. 2012). Acculturation, attitudes, and willingness to seek help.
Poster presented at the 75th Anniversary Fall Conference of the Indiana Psychological Association.
Figuereo, V. J., Moreno, O., & Cardemil, E. V. (Oct 2011). Acculturation and depression: Gender
differences in a Mexican-American sample. Poster presented at the 51st Meeting of the New England Psychological
Association at Fairfield University, Fairfield CT.
Accomplishments
Helped establish a men of color support group called FOCUS as Clark University; Helped further establish a threeday conference aimed towards addressing student of color leadership called Millennium Leadership Conference
(MLC) at Clark University; Involved in the creation of the Mental Health, Culture, and Community Research
Program at Clark University; Peer-reviewed submission abstracts for the 2014 Diversity Research Symposium at
Ball State University; Involved in the creation of the Latino Research Initiative at Boston College School of Social
Work.