Faculty Advisors
Dr. Lauren A. Barnes, LMFT currently serves as the faculty advisor for SFLSA. She is an Assistant Professor and the Clinical Director for the Marriage and Family Therapy graduate program in the School of Family Life at BYU. Prior to her faculty appointment at BYU in 2013, she worked as a therapist at Center for Change, a residential treatment centers for women and girls struggling with eating disorders. She continues to maintain a small private practice. She grew up in the Pacific Northwest where she met her wonderful husband, Aaron. They are the happy parents of two lively, young children.
Dana Hunter, Faculty, has taught foods in the School of Family Life for 20 years. She is a proud Family and Consumer Sciences educator and is passionate about family mealtime. You already knew this if you've taken any of the foods classes from her (SFL 110, SFL 215, and SFL 340). She grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and before coming to BYU, she taught in the public schools and worked in recipe testing and development. She raised her 3 amazing adult children in American Fork, Utah, and loves to travel in her spare time.
Dr. Andrea Kinghorn Busby, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Human Development, School of Family Life. I am a new faculty advisor for SFLSA and a proud graduate of the School of Family Life. After graduation I worked as a middle school math teacher for Prince George’s County Public Schools through Teach for America. I then earned a master’s degree in statistics and a doctoral degree in human development and social policy at Northwestern University. My research focuses on how family, school, neighborhood, and policy contexts influence inequality in children’s development. I love singing, making Mexican food, traveling, and figuring out how to compost my family’s food scraps. With my husband, another Dr. Busby in BYU’s political science department, I have 2 great kiddos.
Dr. Mindy Brown, Visiting Assistant Professor. Mindy Brown is a full-time visiting faculty member in the School of Family Life. She completed her graduate degrees in Developmental Psychology at the University of Utah. She has spent the last six years teaching at the University of Utah in the Department of Psychology and researching mother-infant dyadic relationships and the intergenerational transmission of emotion dysregulation. She grew up in Idaho Falls, ID, and is now married and has five children, (ages 12-24), and one son-in-law.