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My Story
My Story
I was born and raised in Tanner, Alabama, a rural community of around 2,500 people. I am a proud first-generation college student. For my undergraduate studies, I attended Duke University in Durham, NC, where I majored in psychology and minored in education and Korean. Following graduation, I served as a Fulbright Scholar in South Korea, where I taught English as a Second Language for three years. Currently, I am a doctoral candidate in the Psychology PhD Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago, with research interests in the social and emotional contexts of learning. Upon graduation, I plan to pursue a teaching-oriented career.
Core Values
Core Values
Interdisciplinary Collaboration: collaboration between researchers and members of the community (and people from various disciplines) is the best way to engage in meaningful research
An Ecological Perspective: people must be viewed in terms of their contexts (with each level of contextual influence embedded within a larger level); these contextual factors interact in nuanced and powerful ways
Reflexivity: the self-referential quality of a study in which the researcher reflects on their personal assumptions, motives, history, and biases and their impact on the research process (e.g., How does my presence affect the research at each stage of the process? How am I changed as a result of engaging in research?)
Social Justice: the recognition that many of our social problems are exacerbated by disproportionate resource allocation throughout our society; research is a means to challenge the oppressive systems which lead to these circumstances.
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