About Lily B. Kaye

Lily received a B.S. in Psychology and a B.A. in Linguistics, summa cum laude, from the University of Florida in 2005. During her undergraduate education, Lily worked as a research assistant for two projects: one examining the effects of sibling interaction on theory of mind development in children and the other (Dr. Tucker’s “Children’s Health Self-Empowerment Project”) examining health-promoting and health-risk behaviors among three ethnicities of parent-adolescent pairs and included a health self-empowerment intervention component. Lily received the designation of Highest Honors for her senior honors thesis, “The Association of Health Motivation, Health Value, Health Self-Praise, and Coping Skills with Alcohol and Drug Use among College Students.”

From 2005-2006, Lily worked as Project Assistant for the Florida Department of Health and Education’s “Coordinated School Health Program,” during which time she helped conduct regional HIV/AIDS/sexuality education conferences and aid in training 12 Rural Health Initiative school teams to begin health promotion programs. In 2006, Lily returned to the University of Florida and entered into the Department of Psychology’s Ph.D. program in Counseling Psychology. She currently serves as a Graduate Research Assistant on Dr. Carolyn Tucker’s Family Health Self-Empowerment Project: a 3-year, $1.1 million project funded by the Pepsi-Co Foundation.  Lily’s research interests include community- and school-based prevention and intervention programs for various mental and physical health issues, including obesity, nutrition, eating disorders, depression, and risky sexual behaviors.