K’Nadja Sims
Doctoral Student
K’Nadja Sims is a doctoral student in the Counseling Psychology & Applied Human Development program at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development on the counseling psychology track. K’Nadja’s research interests include Black identity development and academic achievement. At Boston University, she works as an assistant to BU’s Sankofa Scholars program and is an AACTE Holmes Scholar. She is also a Liberation Lounge committee member for Division 17 of the American Psychological Association (APA).
As a master’s student, K’Nadja engaged in research with team REACH, specifically examining financial informed consent and multicultural orientation in supervisor and supervisee dyads. K’Nadja also completed a therapy internship at Sprigs Counseling Collaborative where she provided therapy to children and adolescents. She also worked at Autism Learning Partners as a registered behavior technician (RBT).
pronouns: she/her
Education
MS, Psychology, Augusta University
BS, Psychology, Augusta University
Selected Publications
Wilcox, M. M., Sims, K., Tevid, E., Farra, A., & Duck, A. (2024). Financial informed consent reduces undergraduate students’ interest in graduate psychology education. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/stl0000416
Burish, E. C., Wilcox, M. M., Pollard, E. M., & Sims, K. (2023). Differentiating protective factors for transgender individuals who experience suicidality. Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, 30(3), 702-613. https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cpp.2833
Selected Presentations
Adelabu, D., Arcot, R. R., DeLeon, A., Aradhya, P., & Sims, K. (2024). Educational research for equity: A workshop on anti-bias, anti-oppressive educational research practices. Workshop presented at the 2024 Conference of the Northeastern Educational Research Association, Trumbull, Connecticut.
Adelabu, D. H., Santilli, L. B., Whitmore, J., Muir, G., Crawford, F., DeLeon, A., Sims, K. (2024). Decolonizing higher education: Pivoting toward the greater good. Symposium presented at the 2024 Conference of the Northeastern Educational Research Association, Trumbull, Connecticut.
Sims, K., Brabson, K., Rose, A., & Wilcox, M. M. (2024). Association between adverse childhood experiences and parental satisfaction. Poster presented at the 2024 Conference of the Southeastern Psychological Association, Orlando, Florida.
Sims, K., Cushman Jack, L., Coulanges, E., Cox, D., & Davis, C. L. (2024). Glycemic excursion minimization (GEM) to outshine health disparities: Expert insights. Poster presented at the 2024 Conference of the Southeastern Psychological Association, Orlando, Florida.
Sims, K., Wilcox, M. M., Paquette, S., Zimmerman, D., Farra, A., Pollard, E., & Borel, C. (2023). Does financial informed consent negatively impact BIPOC students’ interest in psychology careers? Poster presented at the 2023 Convention of the American Psychological Association, Washington, D. C.
Ma, Q., Charleston, K., Sims, K., Wilcox, M. M., & Winkeljohn-Black, S. (2023). A qualitative analysis of BIPOC supervisee critical incidents in clinical supervision. Poster presented at the 2023 Convention of the American Psychological Association, Washington, D. C.
Sims, K., Wilcox, M. M., Zimmerman, D., Tevid, E., & Paquette, S. (2023). Financial informed consent decreases student interest in pursuing graduate education. Poster presented at the 2023 Conference of the Southeastern Psychological Association, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Sims, K., Paquette, S., & Wilcox, M. M. (2023). Racial group disparities in graduate assistantship funding among Ph.D. students. Poster presented at the 2023 Conference of the Southeastern Psychological Association, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Wilcox, M. M., Pollard, E., Sims, K., Borel, C., Moss, T., Farra, A., & Zimmerman, D. (2022). Multicultural orientation in cross-racial clinical supervision processes and outcomes. Poster presented at the 2022 Conference of the Southeastern Psychological Association, Hilton Head, South Carolina.
Wilcox, M. M., Pollard, E., Borel, C., Sims, K., Zimmerman, D., Farra, A., & Moss, T. (2022). Correlates of financial informed consent in professional psychology education. Poster presented at the 2022 Conference of the Southeastern Psychological Association, Hilton Head, South Carolina.