About Us
Welcome to CHATogether!
Our team creates safe spaces to “CHAT” and learn about coping strategies in Asian child-parent conflicts. This program aims to facilitate child-parent communication, break stigma, and develop effective coping skills in a culturally sensitive manner. Ultimately, together we bring visibility to Asian American’s mental wellness. How it works: our team creates vignettes that captures specific themes of child-parent conflict. Then 1) problematic scenarios are acted out, 2) a moderator processes perspectives of both child and parent, and 3) the actors re-do the same skit after incorporating more effective communication skills leading to a “alternative scenario." We also produce flashcards and short clips to demonstrate how to “role play” these communication skills as child and parents. In addition, we provide professional coping tips that could be especially helpful for Asian and Asian Americans.
Director: Eunice Yuen, MD PhD
Albert J. Solnit integrated Adult and Child Psychiatry Fellow at the Yale Child Study Center.
Dr Yuen obtained her MD and PhD degrees from the State University of New York at Buffalo. She is currently in her final year of an integrated Adult and Child Psychiatry fellowship at Yale Child Study Center. Her clinical and research in children’s mental health covers from ba
Theater Acting Director and Research Consultant: Alan Lee
Hometown: Honolulu
Alan Lee is a medical student at Yale School of Medicine pursuing psychiatry. Always curious, he has a wide range of interests spanning art history, Asian American culture, Chinese cooking, and sociolinguistics. During his spare time, he enjoys reading, hiking, biking, and surfing. He has taught honors and special education
Development Director: Herman Peng
Hometown: San Francisco Bay Area
Herman is a third-year student at Yale University pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy. He grew up in Silicon Valley, a region of mass undiagnosed mental health illness. Herman's interest in mental health advocacy began while working with an innovative organization there. For CHAT, he leads in identifying ways we can utilize our
Skit Production Director: Kara Beck
Hometown: Philadelphia
Kara Beck comes to CHATogether with a love of acting, improv, and mental health. She has worked in social services and public health research, focusing on food security, access to public benefits, and substance use treatment. Kara is also involved in community theater and studies improvisational comedy at the Philadelphia Improv Theatre, bot
Development Coordinator: Max Su
Hometown: Connecticut
Max is currently a senior high school student at Choate Rosemary Hall interested in majoring in psychology. He has acted in vignettes and helped coordinate the expansion of the vignette model to high school audiences. Outside of CHATogether, Max is the president of the Asian Students Association at his school and a Pathways Mentor, a mentorship p
Graphic Designer and Research Consultant: Nealie Ngo
Hometown: Oklahoma City, OK
Nealie is currently a third-year medical student at the University of Toledo College of Medicine who is interested in either Psychiatry or Rheumatology. She graduated from Yale College in 2018 with a B.A. in the History of Science, Medicine, and Public Health and was accepted to medical school through an accelerated pro