engagement and empowerment around issues of health and self-esteem. Her multi-year Minority HIV/AIDS Research Initiative was funded through the NIH starting in 2007, and focused on decreasing HIV risk among Black adolescents and young adults. Wallace's work has been featured on ABCnews.com, Essence magazine, and other media outlets. References External links Faculty Homepage Youth Health Empowerment and Action Research Team (y-HEART) African-American psychologists American women psychologists 21st-century American psychologists Yale College alumni Fordham University alumni St. John's University (New York City) faculty HIV/AIDS researchers Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American women academics 21st-century African-American people 21st-century African-American women