• Karely Valdez Lopez CV

Education

Ph.D. Clinical Psychology - Incoming Student

University of California

M.A. Psychological Research

California State University, Long Beach

B.A. Psychology, B.A. Spanish Studies

University of California, Santa Cruz


Fellowships & Awards

  • (2026) GRAD EDGE Fellow

    (2026-2031) Eugene Cota-Robles Fellow

  • (2025) Sally Casanova Summer Research Scholar‍ ‍

    (2025) Graduate Equity Fellow‍ ‍

    (2024-2025) Sally Casanova Scholar‍ ‍

    (2024-2025 ) J. Robert Newman Scholar

    (2024) Associated Students Inc. Student Travel Grant

  • (2020) The Humanities Institute Undergraduate Fellowship

    (2020) Building Belonging Fellowship


Publications

Published

Orendain Soto, C., Dueñas, A. D., Castellón, F. A., Valdez Lopez, K., & Rocha, J. (2025). “The structural rigidity of the U.S. is missing in Mexico and the diversity and freedom of Mexico is missing in the U.S.”: Experiences of autism service providers along the U.S.–Mexico Border. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-025-07145-8

Dueñas, A. D., Sole, M., Blasko, A., Valdez Lopez, K., & Cordero, Y. N. (2025). Barriers to access and cultural considerations for caregiver-mediated interventions: Insights from the Ecocultural family interview with Latine families. Journal of Early Intervention, 48(1), 91–109. https://doi.org/10.1177/10538151251353523

Under Review

Valdez Lopez, K., Dueñas, A.D., Caplan, B. (under review). Understanding Service Experiences Among Latinx Transborder (United States-Mexico) Caregivers of Autistic Children.

Ochoa, W., Unadkat, D., Melgarejo, M, Baldonado-Ruiz, M., Valdez Lopez, K., Dueñas, A.D., Gaxiola Serrano, T., Navarro Martell, M. (under review). Comadrazgo as resistance: Women of color navigating higher education through femtorship- the ascent, the drift, and return to community.

Dueñas, A.D., Castellón, F.A., Valdez Lopez, K., Orendain Soto, C., Kuperman, K. (under review) “Agarro lo mejor de dos mundos”: Transfronteriza mothers of autistic children as nepantleras in a rural U.S./Mexico border.

In preparation

Dueñas, A.D., Valdez Lopez, K., (in preparation). What Fidelity Measures and What It Misses: A Mixed Methods Study of Caregiver and Child Strengths in Naturalistic Developmental Behavioral Interventions.


Research Presentations


Languages

English

Fluent in speaking, reading, writing

Spanish

Fluent in speaking, reading, writing