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I am a MindCORE Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, primarily working with Drs. Adrianna Jenkins and Rebecca Waller. I completed my PhD in Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with Drs. Seth Pollak and Kristin Shutts.

My B.A. is also in psychology, with honors, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Prior to returning to Madison for graduate school, I received an Intramural Research Training Award from the National Institute of Mental Health, where I worked with Drs. Daniel Pine and Monique Ernst in the Section on Development and Affective Neuroscience.

At the University of Pennsylvania, I co-founded Mind DivE In (Diversity and Equity Initiative in the Mind Sciences). The initiative brings pre-grad students to Penn for a weekend of mentoring, networking, and professional development workshops on topics related to graduate school. We aim to fill mentorship gaps that are more likely to be faced by students from underrepresented groups with a broader objective of improving diversity in fields that are related to the study of the mind. Applications are typically posted in late spring. Resources, including recorded workshops from the event, are available on our website: https://web.sas.upenn.edu/dive/