Advisors
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Dr. Yarrow Dunham Office hours: Drop-in Zoom office hours: Thursday mornings 9-1030am, or by appointment
https://yale.zoom.us/my/yarrowdunham Note: DUS Dunham will not be holding office hours on Nov 13, due to travel |
Dr. Stephanie Lazzaro Neuroscience Track Advisor
Dr. Arielle Baskin-Sommers |
| Fredericka Grant fredericka.grant@yale.edu Department Registrar Office: 100 College St, Room 1420H Office Hours: by appointment via email |
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Senior Mentors (2025-2026)
These are senior mentors appointed by the DUS. If you have any questions about course selections and majoring in Psychology and want to talk to students who have been in similar situations, contact them!
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Vanessa Anaya Hey y’all! My name is Vanessa (she/her), and I am from the small town of Esparto in Northern California. I am pursuing a B.S. in Psychology with a certificate in Spanish and am interested in increasing mental healthcare access in underserved rural communities. I am completing my thesis in the EHP Lab, where I have worked since my sophomore year. My research examines the impact of awe interventions in dyads on subsequent behavior and physiological connectedness. During my summers, I studied abroad in Barcelona, worked as a Behavioral Health Technician, and was a Wu Tsai Undergraduate Fellow in the ARC Lab. My work in the ARC lab focused on savoring as a positive emotion regulation strategy in depression and anxiety. At Yale, I have served as an Office of Educational Opportunity mentor, worked as a La Casa Peer Liaison, and am now a Berkeley FroCo. I love spending time outside, finding a new coffee spot, making pizza, and facetiming her sisters back home! Ask me about navigating being FGLI and Latina at Yale, research on campus, deciding between a PsyD or PhD, choosing courses, Taylor Swift, and my hate for cheese. I am so excited to connect with you!
Gaeun Lee Hi everyone! My name is Gaeun (or Gwon) and I’m a senior in Berkeley from Belmont, Massachusetts. I’m a B.S. candidate in Psychology and I plan to pursue a Ph.D. in clinical psychology after a couple of gap years! My main research interests lie in examining risks and biases for mood disorders, especially in behaviors related to depression such as suicidal ideation or self-harm. Since my sophomore year, I’ve worked as a research assistant in the Affect Regulation and Cognition (ARC) Lab on campus, where I assist in projects on the intersection between cognitive flexibility, anxiety disorders, and depression. Reach out with questions related to finding a research lab or passion, Asian American mental health, navigating the major as an FGLI student, applying to grad school, or anything else — happy to yap always. Academics aside, I love to explore cafes, take personality tests, or hole up in a practice room at the School of Music. I am so so excited to connect with you all! :)
Sasha Santini-Bishop Hi everyone! My name is Sasha (she/her), and I’m a Berkeley 2026.5 senior from Peralta, New Mexico, pursuing my B.S. in Psychology. My primary interests lie in Clinical Child Psychology, parent-child dyadic relationships, and neurodevelopment, with an emphasis on how early adverse experiences and protective factors inform neurodevelopment and the development of symptomatology. I am a member of Dr. Karim Ibrahim’s Emotion Regulation and Systems Neuroscience Lab at the Yale Child Study Center. We investigate the neural bases of emotion regulation in child mental health through multimodal imaging and the examination of neural networks. This academic year, I will work toward completing my senior thesis on functional connectivity correlations with internalizing symptoms and adverse experiences versus protective factors in childhood. Outside of the lab, I’m also an assistant daycare teacher in New Haven! Working with children is my passion, and I’m always working toward informing my long-term devotion to child advocacy, research, and care! I hope to be a helping hand in navigating Yale as an FGLI student from a rural area, and would love to talk about how to find and create opportunities as a Psychology student, from finding labs to summer experiences and considering post-graduate plans. I’ve also dealt with the obstacle of taking an unplanned personal leave of absence, and am always happy to support a student who finds themself needing time off from Yale or lend an ear when needed. I love reading, music, trying coffee shops, and thrifting! I look forward to meeting! |
Hi friends! My name is Alyssa (she/her), and I am a senior in Grace Hopper pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Psychology with an intensive certificate in Education Studies. Growing up in a small town in Nebraska, I recognized conversations surrounding mental health as taboo, uncomfortable, and overall inaccessible. However, it is precisely this intersection of psychology, learning environments, and conversations surrounding cognitive and emotional development that I am interested in! I work in the Education Collaboratory at Yale with Dr. Christina Cipriano to research how social-emotional learning in K-12 classrooms benefits students, regardless of subject domains. I am also a research assistant in the Leonard Learning Lab with Dr. Julia Leonard, investigating how children persist in the face of inevitable challenges in learning, where I’m developing a thesis on parent-child interactions surrounding beliefs in the child’s competence. Around campus, you can find me participating in faith life at Yale, practicing ASL with my tutees, hanging out with small-town folks in the Rural Students Alliance, and working out in the gym. Please reach out to me if you are interested in how to get involved in research (especially if you feel like you don’t know where to start–I’ve been there!), educational psychology, thinking through summer options and studying abroad, and if you want to chat beyond that. I’m rooting for you all to make the most out of your time at Yale and happy to support you through it!
Zoma Marino What’s poppin’, psychology peeps! My name is Zoma (she/her), and I am a senior in Franklin from Clearfield, Utah. I am also a proud FGLI and QuestBridge scholar! I am double-majoring in Psychology and Visual Art (concentrating in painting/printmaking), and I work as a researcher in Dr. Maria Gendron’s Affective Science and Culture (ASC) lab on the Affective Cues and Prosocial Behavior team. I am particularly interested in researching how anxious traits, tendencies, and disorders impact emotional expression perception and communication mediated by visual art principles. When I first came to Yale, I initially intended on majoring in Computing and the Arts. However, after realizing CS was not my true passion, I made one of the best decisions of my life and switched to study Psychology. If you need advice about switching majors, navigating Yale as an FGLI student, finding a lab, pursuing independent research, summer work, combining majors, or anything else under the sun, I am always happy to help! Navigating Yale can be an overwhelming experience at times, but you don’t have to go at it alone. I am really looking forward to meeting you, and I hope you can find something to smile about today!
Riley Shubb Hi everyone! My name is Riley Shubb, and I am a senior in Pauli Murray College majoring in Psychology on the Neuroscience track, with a certificate in Education Studies. My research interests include emotional and behavioral regulation, as well as neurodevelopment, during childhood and adolescence. In particular, I am curious about how sex and gender differences, along with early life experiences, influence these regulatory processes and contribute to neurodevelopmental trajectories. I am a research assistant in the Clinical Affective Neuroscience and Development Lab (CANDLab), where I evaluate the quality of MRI data used for analysis.Through my research experiences at Yale, I have been able to take part in exciting opportunities such as writing papers and presenting at conferences. I am always happy to answer questions about psychology at Yale and beyond, including research opportunities and graduate school! |
