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Research Interests

I seek to study how infants are able to process emotional expressions in people with different races and genders. Most literature uses neutral faces and focuses on either race or gender, but I would like to use the value of intersectionality to look at the creation of in-group and out-group biases in early life. I would like to conduct research looking at how deficits in facial and emotional recognition can lead to future diagnoses later in life, as social deficits tend to be core to most psychiatric diagnoses. 

Computer Programs

RStudio  SPSS     Stata   Python     Photoshop    Microsoft Programs 

Insqcribe  Datavyu     REDCap Google Suite  Qualtrics    iMovie   Bash 

Lab Experience

Sept 2019-July 2021

Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow  | Holmes Laboratory at Yale University 

  • Acquire fMRI data for a study in unipolar depression, bipolar depression, and schizophrenia to identify the link between the functioning of large-scale brain networks and dimensional symptom profiles in patients with affective and psychotic illnesses

  • Direct neuro-imaging data collection for NIH RO1 study

  • Recruit, schedule, and consent healthy subjects and patients diagnosed with affective and psychotic illness

  • Helped to code and develop behavioral and self report processing pipelines

  • Assist in the execution of lab managerial duties including maintenance of IRB approvals, management of lab finances and grants, and organization of lab meetings and professional events

June 2018-May 2019

Research Assistant | Infant Studies of Language and Neurocognitive Development 

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  • Worked on study to understand how early home environment impacts trajectories of language and cognitive development and examine how caregiver stress and the home language environment influence early language skills during the first two years of life
  • Stored data and ensured all files are in the correct places and routinely backing up files

  • Recruited potential participants for studies by putting up flyers in businesses and community organizations and attended events for recruitment purposes

  • Assisted head researcher in experimental protocol and calmed baby participant

  • Coded videos with Datavyu and scored surveys from studies 

  • Kept lab website and social media up to date and created content to recruit families to the study

August 2018-December 2018

BELLE Project Intern | NYU School of Medicine/ Bellevue Hospital 

  • Worked on a study to help adapt, develop and assess pediatric health care strategies for low-income families of very young children (age birth-5 years) and utilize parent-child interactions as a tool

  • Inputted, uploaded, and cleaned data for future coding at the counterpart lab in University of Pittsburgh 

  • Recruited mothers and babies for the study from different clinics in Bellevue Hospital clinics

  • Provided childcare when necessary for various children who come in as participants or siblings of participants

Education

2021-2026

City University of New York, The Graduate Center

Developmental Psychology PhD

Advisor: Dr. Jennifer Wagner

2015-2019

Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, & Human Development, New York University

Bachelors in Applied Psychology

Minor in Sociology

Extras

HONORS AND AWARDS

  • Steinhardt Dean’s List for 2018-2019 Academic Year, August 2019                                   

  • Wasserman Center for Career Development Internship Grant, April 2019

  • Steinhardt Dean’s List for 2017-2018 Academic Year, August 2018

  • Active Member of Psi Chi at NYU: National Honor Society in Psychology, October 2017- May 2019

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VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE 

Pediatric Neurology Volunteer| Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital, February 2020

  • Interact with children who are staying in the neurology unit of the hospital aged 1 month- 18 years old

  • Help children with medical conditions cope with the stress of hospital visits

  • Properly clean and disinfect toys and playroom in the hospital 

  • Assist nurses and doctors as needed 

Community Volunteer| Planned Parenthood of Southern New England, October 2019- March 2020

  • Attend community volunteer day once a month to help create safe sex education materials 

  • Assist employees of Planned Parenthood as needed 

Volunteer Teacher| East Harlem Bilingual Headstart / PS 345, August 2016- May 2018

  • Assisted in preschool and kindergarten classrooms of children aged 3-5

  • Read to children and lead circle time activities

  • Tutored children with difficulties in writing and math 

  • Cleaned up after children 

  • Interacted and played with children

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NON-ACADEMIC WORK EXPERIENCE 

Part-time Nanny, February 2018- August 2019

  • Played with and attended to three year old boy 

  • Helped mother with chores and clean-up around the house 

  • Watched infant brother when necessary 

File Clerk/Receptionist, September 2015- January 2017

  • Scheduled meetings and arranged calendars of partners and paralegals 

  • Witnessed contracts (last will and testaments; prenuptial agreements) 

  • Typed information on computers and organize online archive of client documents

  • Answered phones and greet clients before meetings 

Camp Counselor, June 2016- August 2016

  • Leader of a group of children aged 2-3

  • Managed children's behavior throughout the day

  • Modeled constructive participation in daily activities 

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