Originally from Upstate NY, Allison joins the DEPTH lab after completing her BA at Binghamton University and MA at American University. Allison’s research interests include exploring weight stigma and weight bias internalization, and how they relate to disordered eating behaviors. She is particularly interested in how weight status may influence an individual’s experience with stigma.

Allison is completing her predoctoral internship at Dell Children's Hospital in Austin, TX.

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Kendall is joining the lab after completing her BS at Kennesaw State University and her MA at Western Carolina University. Kendall’s research interests include the role of interoception in relation to disordered eating behaviors, with a particular interest in the interoceptive experience of hunger and satiety. Outside the lab, she enjoys paddle boarding and the beach. 

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Originally from outside Philly, Laura is joining the DEPTH Lab after completing her BS at the University of Pittsburgh. Laura’s research interests include evaluating how emotional and sociocultural risk factors influence the development and maintenance of disordered eating behaviors and body image concerns. Outside of her time in the lab, Laura loves trying her hand at new cuisines and recipes, reading a good book, and enjoying the simple things in life with those she holds close.

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Jem is joining the lab from London after completing her BS/MS in Psychology. Jem is interested in gastrointestinal interoception (particularly hunger and satiety response) and how it contributes to different patterns of disordered eating. She is also interested in studying food and alcohol disturbance during emerging adulthood. Outside of the lab, Jem enjoys running track, watching the NFL, and going to the beach. 

Siena is from Oakland, California and completed her BS at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2018. Siena’s research interests include examining predictors of and treatments for maladaptive exercise, the intersection of substance use and disordered eating, and maintenance factors for eating disorders in marginalized and socioeconomically disadvantaged populations. In her free time, Siena enjoys backpacking, playing pickleball, and discovering new craft projects.

Originally from northern New Jersey, Emily is joining the lab after completing her BA at Montclair State University in 2023 and a two year post-bacc position at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Emily's research interests include the role of interoceptive awareness in disordered eating risk and maintenance, interoceptive awareness test validity and reliability across multiple systems (gastrointestinal, cardiovascular, respiratory) and how these factors may predict disordered eating and inform treatment. Outside of lab, Emily enjoys hiking and camping with her rescue dog, Rummy, as well as cooking, baking, and spending time with loved ones.  

Originally from the Connecticut shoreline, Jarett earned his B.S. from Palm Beach Atlantic University, M.A. from Southern Connecticut State University, and completed post-graduate work at Yale University. His research examines predictors of and treatment for maladaptive exercise and eating disorders in young adults. He focuses on how motivation mediates the relationship between healthy and unhealthy exercise and eating behaviors. Outside the lab, he enjoys going to the gym, watching and playing sports, and spending time with friends. 

Cody is from Wendell, NC and graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2019. His research interests involve disordered eating in men, the intersection of maladaptive exercise behaviors and disordered eating, and outcomes associated with expectancies of thinness and muscularity. In his free time, he enjoys watching and playing sports (go Tar Heels!), going to the beach, and hanging out at Busch Gardens. Cody completed his predoctoral internship at the Hefner VA in Salisbury, NC, where he also will complete his postdoctoral fellowship.

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Maddy earned her PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of South Florida in August 2024. Before joining the DEPTH lab Maddy completed a BS/MS program at Drexel University. Her research interests include investigating risk factors for maladaptive exercise and disordered eating behaviors. She is particularly interested in exploring identity as a potential prevention and treatment target of maladaptive exercise. Maddy completed her predoctoral internship at VASDHS/UCSD on the Eating Disorder Outpatient/Rady Children's Hospital Medical Behavioral Unit, where she is completing her postdoctoral fellowship.

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Christina earned her PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of South Florida in August 2022. Before jumping on the DEPTH lab bandwagon, Christina graduated with a B.A. in Psychology and studied eating disorder preventive interventions at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. Christina's research interests include body image in understudied samples and predictors of the full spectrum of disordered eating behaviors. She has a particular interest in behavioral measures food craving and their relation to disordered eating behaviors from undereating to overeating. In her free time, she spends every second with her dog, Tucker!  

Christina completed her internship at the Texas Child Study Center (Pediatric/Integrated Care) a postdoctoral fellowship in Pediatric Psychology at the Texas Child Study Center.

Christina founded ACE+ Austin Center for Eating in September 2023, where she provides family-based and individual therapy to children, adolescents, and young adults with feeding, eating, and anxiety disorders. She also continues to work as an embedded pediatric psychologist within the Adolescent Medicine Department at Dell Children's Medical Group.

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Emily earned her PhD in Clinical Psychology at the University of South Florida in August 2021. During graduate school, her research focused on the intersection of disordered eating behaviors and alcohol use. Emily and colleagues coined the term Food and Alcohol Disturbance (FAD) to describe the functional relationship between disordered eating and alcohol use. Emily completed her predoctoral internship at the MEDVAMC in Houston, TX and a postdoctoral fellowship at the Laureate Institute for Brain Research (LIBR) in Tulsa, OK.

Emily transitioned to an Associate Investigator position at LIBR in December 2023.

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Brittany earned her PhD in Clinical Psychology at the University of South Florida in August 2021. Her research during graduate school focused on how body ideals (e.g., drive for thinness, drive for muscularity, drive for leanness) are associated with disordered eating behaviors. Outside the lab, Brittany collaborated with the Tampa VA and Byrd Alzheimer’s Institute on neuropsychological-focused research. Brittany completed her predoctoral internship in neuropsychology at the Minneapolis VA and a postdoctoral fellowship in adult clinical neuropsychology in the Neurology Department at the Medical College of Wisconsin.

Brittany is an Assistant Professor (Clinical) and Chief of Neuropsychology (as of July 2025) in the Neurology Department at the University of Utah.