Leadership Team

Raquel Tatar, PhD is the Chief Science Officer at Humin, where she leads the organization's research strategy and ensures that Humin's programs are grounded in rigorous, evidence-based science. In this role, Raquel bridges the gap between cutting-edge wellbeing research and real-world application — designing measurement frameworks, overseeing program evaluation, and translating complex scientific findings into accessible, meaningful interventions. Prior to joining Humin, Raquel served as the Director of Assessment and Analytics at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, where she led institutional research and program evaluation efforts. She also serves as co-founder and CFO of Robbu Group, an affiliation that further extends her commitment to building organizations with meaningful social impact. Raquel is an active thought leader in the wellbeing space, having presented her work at prominent forums including the Pew Research Center, The Wellbeing Project, and the World Economic Forum through the Female Quotient.

Raquel's scholarly work reflects a lifelong dedication to understanding the science of human resilience. With advanced degrees in health psychology and affective sciences, epidemiology and public health, and social ecology from the University of California, Irvine and the University of Miami, she brings a rare interdisciplinary lens to her research. Her published work spans more than a decade and covers the full arc of the stress and coping literature — from longitudinal studies of collective trauma and how media exposure to terrorism shapes people's peak life experiences, to rigorous investigations of whether digital mental health tools actually reach the populations they promise to serve. A particular thread of her research examines the intersection of technology and wellbeing equity: who accesses digital interventions, who doesn't, and what it takes to close that gap. She has also contributed to the development of psychometric tools for assessing wellbeing dimensions across diverse populations.

Outside of her professional work, Raquel finds restoration in technology-free time with her family and in spending time in nature — practices that keep her deeply connected to the wellbeing principles she studies and advocates for every day.