Roxana Llerena-Quinn co-directs the Latino Team in the Department of Outpatient Psychiatry at Children’s Hospital, Boston, where she and pursues her primary interest in working with underserved, urban communities. Her teaching and writing interests are in the area on cross-cultural care and Latino mental health. Her current research has focused in the adaptation of an evidence-based, family intervention program for the prevention of depression in Latino children and has assisted in transporting the intervention to Costa Rica. She is faculty at the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology and the Center of Multicultural Training in Psychology, Boston Medical Center.

At Harvard Medical School, her work focused on faculty development and the integration of cross-cultural care into the medical curriculum. Her interest in the contextual aspects of health led to the development of a 14-week, cultural self-awareness course offered to faculty and medical students.

Roxana has been an AFTA member since 1998, Co-facilitator of the People of Color Network 2001- 2002, article contributor to the AFTA Newsletter 2001-2002, Dialogue Groups Facilitator 2001-2007, member of the Cultural & Economic Diversity Committee since 2004, member of the Nominating Committee in 2004, Co- Chair of the Growing Up in the War Zone Interest Group 2005-2007.