2024-2025: Eva Fortes Coutinho
Eva Fortes Coutinho
2024-2025: Underserved Scholarship Awardee
Clinical Psychology PsyD
African and Caribbean Mental Health
“The thread of the of the needle creates our life design It stitches intricate shades of confusing patterns. Crisscross, crisscross, the colors move across the tapestry Causing us to lose sight of where it all began Soon, we wear clothes unaware of how the holes were stitched over.” —Radical Awakening by Dr. Shefali Tsabary
Eva Coutinho is a 1st year student in the Clinical Psychology program at William James College. She was born and raised in Cape Verde, is fluent in Portuguese and Cape Verdean Creole, and is learning Spanish and Korean. Her work experience as a substance use counselor has highlighted to her the critical need to address systemic barriers to improve treatment prognosis and outcomes. Eva pursued degrees in Psychology and Chemical Dependency/Addiction Studies at Rhode Island College and graduated Magna Cum Laude. As a first-generation college student, she is passionate about integrating intersectionality into the study of psychopathology. Moreover, Eva aspires to expand on research that focuses on competent interventions for racial and ethnic minorities.