I received my BA in Behavioral Neuroscience from the Connecticut College where I tested the FDA-approved antibiotic ceftriaxone’s ability to lessen opiate withdrawal with Joe Schroeder. Subsequently I worked at the Clinical and Affective Neuroscience Lab at Brown University under Willoughby Britton to study mindfulness-based therapies for depression. I then moved to Boston University to obtain my MS in Bioimaging under Ron Killiany and research discriminating functional brain disruptions related to the ApoE e4 genotype in aging and early mild cognitive impairment patients. As an East Coast native, I wanted to try out California and spent the next two years as the Imaging Core Manager of the Memory and Aging Center at the University of California San Francisco where I worked on neuroimaging pipelines and isolating novel data-driven regions to assess longitudinal atrophy change in frontotemporal lobe dementia. I then took a gap year to backpack Central America, South East Asia and Europe before heading to NYC to do my PhD in Biomedical Imaging and Neuroscience at New York University School of Medicine with Mariana Lazar on applying MR spectroscopy and cutting-edge diffusion MRI techniques to assess in vivo microstructural, microvascular and inflammation abnormalities in Neuropsychiatric disorders. For the last two years I have been working as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at MGH/Harvard Medical School with Daphne Holt on researching the neurobiological correlates of loneliness and social isoaltion.