Academics & Research

PhD Student, CUNY Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy — Environmental and Planetary Health Sciences, Certificate in Demography from the CUNY Graduate Center (August 2021 - present)

B.A. with Honors in Psychology & Human Biology, Macaulay Honors College at Hunter College, NY, NY (Aug 2015 — May 2019)

Work Experience

Adjunct Lecturer, Hunter College — Mathematics & Statistics and Psychology Departments (January 2020 - present)
  • Instructor — Elementary Probability & Statistics
  • Lab Instructor — Statistical Methods in Psychological Research Lab (SPSS / JASP)
  • TA — Neuroscience
Fellow  — NYC Panel on Climate Change / NYC Mayor’s Office of Climate & Environmental Justice (June 2022 - present)

Grant/Project Coordinator — Baruch Climate Scholars Program (April 2020 - April 2021)
Coordinator — Baruch College Task Force on Sustainability (Aug 2020 - April 2021)

Lab Manager / Research Assistant with the Sleep Lab/Environmental Psychology Lab (April 2018 - June 2021)
  • Baruch College, CUNY
  • NSF REU Fellowship 2018-2019 Cohort
  • Team Led for the Sustainability Assessment, a survey measuring environmental attitudes and behaviors, personality, emotions, and demographics of students at Baruch College.
Math Tutor/ Supervisor - Dolciani Math Learning Center at Hunter College (Jan 2019-June 2020)

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Marcotullio, P., Brace Diko, O., Lane, K., Olson, C., Tipaldo, J. F., . Ventrella, J., Yoon, L., Knowlton, K., Gowri, A., and Matte, T. (Accepted for publication September 2023). Local power outages, heat, and community characteristics in New York City. Sustainable Cities and Society. doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2023.104932

Engle-Friedman, M., Tipaldo, J. F., Piskorski, N., Young, S., and Rong, C. (2022).. Enhancing Environmental Resource Sustainability by Imagining Oneself in the Future. Journal of Environmental Psychology. 79. doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2021.101746

Academic Talks

Tipaldo, J. F., Hunter, L. M., and Balk, D. (2024, April) The Vulnerability of Older Adults to Climate-Related Health Hazards: A Review. Talk given by Jenna Tipaldo in the session “Climate Change, Environmental Inequality, and Health.” Population Association of America Conference. Columbus, OH.

Balk, D., Jiang, L, Zoraghein, H., and Tipaldo, J. F. (2024, April) Understanding future vulnerability to climate hazards: Spatial and Thematic Refinements to Population Projections - a case study of New York City. Talk given by Leiwen Jiang in the session “Flash: New Developments in Spatial Demography.” Population Association of America Conference. Columbus, OH.

Zoraghein, H., Balk, D., Jiang, L, and  Tipaldo, J. F. (2023, December) Understanding future vulnerability to climate hazards: Extending SSP-consistent Population Projections for Cities with a Climate Justice Lens – A case study of New York City. Talk given by Hamidreza Zoraghein in the session “Everyone, Everything, Everywhere: Spatial Data for Sustainable Development and Environmental Justice Applications.” American Geophysical Union Conference. San Francisco, CA.

Tipaldo, J. F.
and Engle-Friedman, M. (2021, August). Student Climate Change Awareness and Action in the Time of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Talk given by Jenna Tipaldo at the 129th American Psychological Association Conference, Division 34. Online.

Tipaldo, J. F., Tenantitla, R., and Engle-Friedman, M. (2020, July) Stormy Days Ahead: Fear of Future Climate-Related Disasters. Data Blitz talk given by Jenna Tipaldo at the American Psychological Association Division 34 Conference, remote conference.

Engle-Friedman, M., and Tipaldo, J. F (2020, January). Family Planning Decisions Affected by Climate Change: Potential Impacts on Families and Society. Talk to given by Mindy Engle-Friedman, PhD Sixteenth International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic & Social Sustainability 2020, Santiago, Chile.

Tipaldo, J. F., Sawhney, K., and Engle-Friedman, M. (2019, July). Climate Change: Legal Activism by Youth Inspires Agemates. Talk given by Mindy Engle-Friedman, PhD at the Annual Conference of the European Association of Psychology and Law, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

Tipaldo, J. F. (2019, May) The Effect of Climate Change on Reproductive Decisions. Talk given at the 2019 National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates Spring Conference at Baruch College, New York, NY.

Posters

Aucapina, F., Tipaldo, J. F., Hernandez, S., & Engle-Friedman, M. (2022, March) Childbearing Decisions in the Context of Climate Change. Poster presented at the 2021 Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, New York, NY. 

Lin, C., Garcia, O., Tipaldo, J. F, & Engle-Friedman, M. (2021, May). Feeling threatened by climate change, do students take action? Poster presented at the 2021 Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Online.

Tipaldo, J. F, Fang, S., & Engle-Friedman, M. (2021, March). Predicting Environmentally Protective Behavior: Do Attitudes and Income Matter? Poster presented at the 2021 Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Online. 

Dillman-Hasso, N., Tipaldo, J. F., Piskorski, N, and Engle-Friedman, M. (2020, May). The Action-Attitude Gap in Sustainability: Connectedness to Nature Helps Mediate the Difference. Poster session accepted for presentation at the 32nd Association for Psychological Science Annual Convention, Chicago, IL.

Tipaldo, J. F., Osiecka, Z., Jones, K., Piskorski, N., and Engle-Friedman, M. (2019, May). Who Will Help Protect the Climate? Our Future Environmental Leaders. Poster session presented at the 31st Association for Psychological Science Annual Convention, Washington, D.C.

Skorokhod, Y., Horne, K.A., Tipaldo, J. F., DelaMata, C., Sawhney, K., and Engle-Friedman, M. (2019, May). New Parallel Forms to Assess Objective Effort. Poster session presented at the 31st Association for Psychological Science Annual Convention, Washington, D.C.

Horne, K.A., Kelly, C., Tipaldo, J. F., DelaMata, C., and Engle-Friedman, M. (2019, May). The Effect of a Short Nap on Task Difficulty Perception. Poster session presented at the 31st Association for Psychological Science Annual Convention, Washington, D.C.

Horne, K.A., Lee, M., DelaMata, C., Tipaldo, J. F., and Engle-Friedman, M. (2019, April). Relationship between Anxiety and Optimism and its Effect on Frequency of Sustainable Behavior. Poster session presented at the Western Psychological Association, Pasadena, CA.

Horne, K.A., Tipaldo, J. F., Kelly, C., Osiecka, Z., DelaMata, C., and Engle-Friedman, M. (2019, April). Relationship between Anxiety and Optimism and its Effect on Frequency of Sustainable Behavior. Poster session presented at the Western Psychological Association, Pasadena, CA.

Kelly, C., Horne, K. A., De la Mata, C., Tipaldo, J. F., Skorokhod, Y., and Engle-Friedman, M. (2019, March). A Methodological Study Developing Parallel Forms for the Objective Assessment of Effort. Poster session presented at the International Convention of Psychological Science, Paris, France.

Tipaldo, J. F., Horne, K. A., Piskorski, N., Cruz, N., and Engle-Friedman, M. (2019, March). Planning to Have Kids? What About Climate Change? Poster session presented at The 90th meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, New York, NY.

Horne, K.A., Kelly, C., Tipaldo, J. F., DelaMata, C., Lou, J., Sawhney, K., and Engle-Friedman, M. (2019, June). Objective Effort and Math Performance Predicted by Night-Time Awakenings and Total Sleep Time. Poster session presented at SLEEP, San Antonio, TX.

Horne, K.A., Tipaldo, J. F., Kelly, C., Sawhney, K., and Engle-Friedman, M. (2019, June). New and Parallel-form Measures of Objective Effort: Math Task and Everyday Task Difficulty. Poster session presented at SLEEP, San Antonio, TX.

Tipaldo, J. F., and Young, J. (2018, March). How Psychological and Demographic Factors Affect Fear of Crime in Trinidad and Tobago. Poster session presented at the Hunter College Undergraduate Research Conference, New York, NY.

Tipaldo, J. F., and Young, J. (2018, April). Gender and Ethnicity Play a Role in Fear of Crime in Trinidad and Tobago. Poster session presented at the Hunter College Psychology Convention, New York, NY.

Memberships in Professional Societies

  • American Public Health Association (2021 — present)
  • Association for Psychological Science (2019 — 2022)
  • American Psychological Association (2020 — 2021), Division 34
  • Eastern Psychological Association (2019 — 2021)
  • Psi Chi Honor Society (2017 — present)

Peer Review

  • American Public Health Association Annual Meeting Abstract Review (2022, 2023)
  • Association for Psychological Science Student Research Award Reviews (2020, 2021, 2022)  




Honors Thesis with Dr. Jason Young (Spring 2018)
Hunter College Psychology Department

How Psychological and Demographic Factors Affect Fear of Crime in 
Trinidad and Tobago
Abstract
Fear of crime (FOC), a negative emotional reaction to a perceived or actual threat that may impact behavior, cognition, and affect, has been demonstrated to interact with various socioeconomic and psychological factors. This secondary analysis of a 2015 survey conducted in Trinidad and Tobago explores overall trends and differences between two main ethnic groups and the reasons for these differences. The results (N = 538) indicate significant differences by gender in FOC, safety measures, and general fear, and by ethnicity in FOC, intolerance of uncertainty, victimization risk, general fear, and education level. Intolerance of uncertainty correlates significantly stronger with FOC and victimization risk for Afro- compared to Indo-Trinidadians. These findings may increase understanding of factors contributing to FOC in this society, informing efforts to reduce such fear. Future research should investigate interventions and the universality of these relationships.


Independent Study with Dr. Jason Young (Fall 2017)
Exploring Fear of Crime in Trinidad and Tobago

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