Alex is a current medical student at Columbia University and a recent graduate from UCLA. As a student at UCLA he played club water polo and worked as a wilderness guide, leading camping, backpacking, rock climbing, and canoeing trips across California. Having grown up in Southern California, he...

Alex received her BA in Clinical Psychology from Tufts University, where she discovered her love of psychology. After earning her degree, she became a clinical research coordinator at Massachusetts General Hospital, working on a randomized clinical trial of Deep Brain Stimulation for treatment-...

Alison grew up in Concord, MA, known for its literary and revolutionary history (Henry David Thoreau inspired the name of her first dog Walden). Alison has always loved reading and writing; at Brown University, she studied Comparative Literature and Italian Studies. While studying abroad for a...

Anahid’s fervor for human development began as an undergraduate at UC Berkeley, where she received her Bachelors degrees in both Psychology and Public Policy. She intertwined the study of human development from a micro intrapersonal perspective in psychology, as well as a macro organization...

Archana is originally from Cupertino, California but spent most of her childhood in Hyderabad and Delhi, where she grew up speaking English, Telugu, and Hindi. She attended Cornell University, where she majored in Neurobiology and Behavior and graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta...

Raised in New York, Ashleigh attended Amherst College and graduated magna cum laude with an honors degree in psychology and English.  After college, Ashleigh pursued two years of clinical neuroscience research at Harvard Medical School, studying the neurobiological underpinnings of...

Avani grew up in Minnesota and attended the University of Pittsburgh for undergraduate, where she was a Chancellor’s Scholar and graduated summa cum laude with a BPhil in Neuroscience and minor in Spanish. While at the University of Pittsburgh, she co-founded a chapter of a non-profit...

Brielle was born and raised in Brooklyn, where she remained for high school at Brooklyn Technical High School and college at CUNY Brooklyn. At CUNY Brooklyn, Brielle majored in Psychology and minored in Chemistry. She finally escaped Brooklyn when she made the big move uptown to start medical...

Cait was born and raised in Philadelphia, the city of brotherly love. After attending events on Penn's campus and at the Kelly Writers House throughout her childhood, her dream of receiving a Penn education became a reality when she studied for and received her Bachelor's degree in Biological...

Casey moved to New York in 2015 after earning her Bachelor’s degree in biology from the College of William and Mary, and received her Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in 2020. Currently, she is a postdoctoral researcher at Columbia University where she...

Christina is a postdoctoral fellow and instructor in the Section of Community Behavioral Health at Rush University Medical Center. She received her Bachelor of Arts in psychology with a minor in civic engagement from UCLA. She graduated with her MA/PhD in clinical-community psychology from...

Connor is a cofounder of an upcoming cryptography software project and the sole proprietor of a novel-in-progress. He grew up in Wyoming—his true loyalties are with the forests of the Snowy Range and the rock formations of Vedauwoo. He graduated from Duke in 2012 as an Angier B. Duke Memorial...

Originally from the United States, Daniel spent his elementary and high school days in Zambia and Kenya. He returned to the United States to attend Harvard University, graduating Phi Beta Kappa with a degree in psychology. He is now an M.D. candidate at Columbia College of Physicians &...

Dipal grew up in Newton, Massachusetts and attended Brown University, where she received a BS in Neuroscience. She also spent one year in Germany on a Fulbright Research Grant, studying neuroscientific mechanisms of brain development. Dipal is currently a medical student at Harvard Medical...

Elizabeth is originally from southwest Michigan, but has moved around from St. Louis to rural Kentucky before finally ending up in Boston. Hailing from a road tripping family, she enjoys stocking up on podcasts for the long drive (all 14 hours) back to Michigan to visit family.  Elizabeth is a...

From a very young age, Elizabeth has been baking cookies, pies, and cakes. This love for baking stimulated her interest in chemistry. Elizabeth attended the University of Virginia and obtained her bachelor’s degree in chemistry with a specialization in biochemistry. At UVA, Elizabeth conducted...

Emily is a graduate student working on her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at Harvard University. Her research focuses on trauma, particularly sexual and domestic violence, but she has experience working with patients with a wide range of serious mental illnesses including schizophrenia, bipolar...

Eric is currently a medical student at the Perelman School of Medicine. He graduated Summa Cum Laude from Harvard in 2018 with a degree in chemical and physical biology and a secondary in statistics. During his time at Harvard, he was awarded the Thomas Temple Hoopes prize for best...

Guy did his undergrad in France at the Université de Limoges where he got a Maîtrise in English Literature, with a Minor in Linguistics. He then did an MA in Classics at Rutgers University in New Jersey, in which he performed “spectacularly” on the General Exams, to use the Chair’s own words....

Hayley is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Harvard University Psychology Department working on discovering how stress, mood, and early-life experiences shape how we learn from rewards and punishments. Hayley graduated with her PhD in Psychology from Harvard University, where she...

Jackie is a first-year medical student at NYU School of Medicine and hails from the sunny state of Florida. There, she earned her Bachelor’s degrees in neuroscience and English at the University of Miami, where she graduated magna cum laude and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. While in college...

Joe grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia.  He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania where he studied Psychology (Honors Distinction, Phi Beta Kappa, and summa cum laude). 

Joe has several years of teaching and tutoring experience. At Penn Joe founded and directed the...

Julia was born in Seoul, Korea and grew up in Manhattan. Ever since she was a small child, she has been curious about how things in the body work. In high school, she fell in love with the brain in her freshman biology class and went on to study neuroscience and music at MIT, where she focused...

Keri is from a farm town in Southern New Hampshire. Although she originally attended Stonehill College on the pre-med track, primarily taking classes in biology and chemistry, she made a quick switch to become a psychology major in her senior year and never looked back. In an attempt to live at...

Kevin went to high school in a midwestern cornfield far from the nearest SAT administration, but managed to score 800s on his SAT Verbal, SAT Writing, and U.S. History tests, buttressing his self-esteem sufficiently to withstand a 690 SAT Math score. At Stanford University he took a BA with...

Logan is originally from Eastern North Carolina, where she learned a few essential truths: chocolate is good, and bad things happen to good people – sometimes by chance, and sometimes through acts of systemic injustice. She attended Duke University, where she designed her own course of study on...

Lucy is currently an MBA student at the Wharton School, where she is a Forte Fellow—one of four students chosen for a merit scholarship in her incoming class. She scored a 770 on the GMAT and is on the path to achieve honors in her first year. At Wharton, she is on the Board of the Private...

Max grew up in a military family, moving every three to four years before he attended college at Tufts University. After countless hours spent in a microfluidics lab, playing ultimate frisbee, and eating buffalo chicken calzones, he graduated summa cum laude in 2017. Before starting medical...

When Mugdha was nine years old, she successfully attempted her first surgery—on a beloved teddy bear who desperately needed a re-stuffing. Since then, she hasn’t looked back. She is an M.D. candidate at Harvard Medical School (Class of 2022) with a passion for public health and women’s health....

Niyi was born in Lagos, Nigeria, and immigrated to the United States when he was two years old. He attended high school in New Jersey and went on to major in chemistry at Amherst College. He completed an honors thesis in physical chemistry which focused on the conversion, storage, and use of...

Nora Isacoff, PhD, is a professor in the Psychology departments at both Columbia University and New York University, and a former National Science Foundation IGERT Fellow. She has many years of experience working directly with students of all ages, from elementary school through adults. Her...

As an eldest child, Paige often wrote plays and taught her siblings how to act them out. This passion for fiction is central to her research and her love of teaching. She earned college honors at the University of California, Santa Cruz, majoring in Women’s Studies before going on to a Master’s...

Sam grew up flying back and forth between Beijing and California. He graduated from Wesleyan University with a double major in Psychology and Philosophy, and as a member of Psi Chi, the International Honor Society in Psychology. After college, he joined the Cambridge Coaching admin team, where...

Sarah received her BA in neuroscience and behavior from Wesleyan University, and is currently a neuroscience PhD student at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Her PhD work is focused on studying social behavior in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Before starting her PhD, Sarah worked in...

Serge grew up in Oregon and has lived in the Northeast for nearly a decade. He received his BS from Yale University, double-majoring in psychology and music, focusing on violin performance. While in college and in the years immediately following, he was a scientific researcher, working with...

Shyam grew up in Los Angeles, and completed his undergraduate degree in Neurobiology at Washington University in St. Louis. While at Wash U, he conducted research on the role of serotonin signaling in early brain development, and served on the university’s Board of Trustees. He graduated magna...

Stephanie grew up in a small beach town on Long Island, NY. She moved up to Boston to attend college at MIT, and has been in Boston ever since. At MIT, Stephanie majored in Brain and Cognitive Sciences, and joined a lab where she worked on several Alzheimer’s disease research projects. Stephanie...

Tarun grew up fascinated by the natural world – he would spend hours at the local park in his hometown of McLean, Virginia watching ants crawl on the sidewalk or water babble over stones and wonder how and why they were like that. His intrigue with the world drove him to attend MIT and study...

Tim was born and raised in lovely Laguna Beach, California. He graduated summa cum laude, with Highest Honors in Politics, from the University of California, Santa Cruz. After graduation, he headed East to study for a PhD in Political Science at Brown University. And though he misses California...

Though Vyom was born and spent his early childhood in New Delhi, India, he subsequently spent the majority of my life in central New Jersey. He attended Rutgers University, double majoring in Cell Biology, Neuroscience and Psychology, graduating summa cum laude (4.0 GPA) and Phi Beta...