Maria Santana
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Associate, Marketing & Communications / Staff
Maria’s primary focus at Hopelab is to advocate a youthful and authentic voice while giving teens and young adults a platform to share their health stories. Combining her experience in social media strategy and content creation, Maria manages the Hopelab’s social media presence by working closely with project teams and partner organizations. Earning her B.A. in Strategic and Corporate Communication from Chapman University, she plays a dynamic role in monitoring in-house events as well as external conferences. Maria was born and raised in the Bay Area thrilled to be empowering young people.
Content written by Maria Santana
The Hopelab staff and young adult advisory council drops their wisdom and provides tips for taking care of your mental health during mental health awareness month.
Maria Santana uses Marie Kondo techniques to refresh her physical space and mental health and explores where the Spring habit began.
Get inspired for Valentine’s Day and learn how to love your self a little more this season with some self-care tips from Hopelab!
Social media, depression, anxiety, fluidity, climate change: what else comes to mind when you think about Generation Z?
Life Lessons from Drag Mothers & Daughters! What do drag mental health and identity have in common? Come find out at SXSW!
As a human-centered design organization, we developed the Young Adult Advisory Council (YAAC) to help us will help guide our work.
In March, we met with the Stanford Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Program (SAYAC) to workshop the ways we could better understand the survivorship journey for young adult cancer survivors.
Hopelab attends NASPA strategies conference in Washington DC, exploring loneliness & connection on college campuses, working with adminstrators.
GenZ college students are experiencing loneliness at epidemic levels. Learn about 5 key insights developed by Hopelab to guide product development efforts.
Normalizing social anxiety will help teens understand that people may not look or sound lonely, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t. The goal of this tool should be pushing yourself enough out of your comfort zone to build the college social experience you are searching for.
The technology behind Vivibot was developed in order to meet teens where they already were, on Facebook.