She completed her Ph.D. in psychology at Trinity College Dublin in Ireland in 2015. Kristin has since worked as a visiting research specialist at the University of Illinois at Chicago and as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Resilience Research Centre at Dalhousie University. Broadly, her work is split into two tracks of research which explore wellbeing during adversity. The first assesses how risk and protective factors at the familial level interact to influence children and parents during changes in family structure. The second examines protective processes and resilience trajectories among refugee and migrant youth.