Genna Feirson '20

Amanda Dorsey (’21) is a senior Cognitive and Behavioral Science major and Poverty & Human Capability Studies minor from Abingdon, Maryland. This is Amanda’s 4th year in the Technology and Health Lab. On campus, she is also a Peer Career Advisor and Group Exercise Instructor. After graduation, she plans to pursue a career in Global Health.

Alyssa Bower '19 is currently working in Washington, D.C. as a medical assistant at an OB/GYN practice. She works one-on-one with a physician where she triages patients and helps with procedures, exams, and routine appointments. In the spring, she will be returning to school to pursue a master’s degree in physician assistant studies.

Charlie Kittredge is a graduate from the class of 2020 and now lives in D.C. working as a medical sales representative. As an associate sales representative for a company named Breg, he creates long-lasting relationships with doctors selling braces to them and their patients.

Katherine Richard'19

Pippi Balistreri ’18 is the content director for goHere, a fast-paced creative technology startup specializing in augmented reality. They consult and create with clients in all different industries, applying technology in creative ways to help them anticipate and capitalize on market trends.

As content director, she tailors brand content for each of her clients. Some of her favorite projects include working with one of the leading nutritionists in the country to create resources on the impact of nutrition and chiropractic care on mental and physical health and helping an incredible nonprofit with a new therapeutic model for group foster care to expand nationally.

She loves what she does and is thankful for the foundation the W&L psych department--especially Dr. Murdock and Dr. Whiting--gave her to get here!

Elissavet Chartampila '18 is a research assistant at the Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research in New York, where she studies the mechanisms and effects of hyperexcitability in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease. She plans to pursue a PhD in neuroscience.

Ravenel Harrigan '18 is in an accelerated nursing program at MUSC in Charleston, SC. After graduating in December 2020, she hopes to work in Women’s Health or Pediatrics for a few years before going back to get her Nurse Practitioner degree.

Yolanda Yang ’18 is a clinical psychology MA student at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, IL. As a graduate research assistant in the Mental Health Services and Policy Program, she is currently developing a digital parenting program to teach parents emotion regulation skills in response to the unprecedented stress brought by COVID-19. She is interested in understanding how parenting behaviors could impact children's development and psychopathology, and translating the evidence-based research into accessible, culturally-informed mental health services for underserved families. In the future, she hopes to pursue a doctoral degree in clinical psychology to further study how to bridge the gap between research and practices in the real world, such as via technology (i.e. digital interventions), implementation sciences and policy developments.

Katie Balistreri ’16 is a third-year doctoral student in the clinical psychology program at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her work focuses on the emotional well-being of children with medical conditions as well as their families. Prior to beginning at UWM, Katie worked as a research assistant at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, OH.

Esther Choi ’17 is a senior project manager at the marketing and advertising company Edelman located in New York City.

Gretchen received her master’s degree in Speech-Language Pathology at the University of Texas at Dallas last year and this is her first year out in the field. She is currently an SLP in the Early Childhood Intervention (ECI) program at a nonprofit called Easter Seals of Greater Houston. This entails providing language and feeding therapy for infants between birth to three years old in the home setting (however, currently she is providing teletherapy and it’s going better than expected!). She provides parent coaching for families that have a baby/toddler with a developmental delay or a delay due to a qualifying diagnosis such as CP or ASD. She loves her kids and the families that she serves and is very much enjoying her first job as a therapist.

Ellie Bold ’15 is a third-year doctoral student in Child, Family, and School Psychology at the University of Denver. Her work focuses on fostering the inclusion of all children in the general education setting through effective behavioral management and multidisciplinary collaboration. Prior to starting graduate school, Ellie worked as a data technician at the Duke University Center for Child and Family Policy.

Caroline is currently a clinical psychology doctoral student at the University of Virginia's Curry School of Education and Human Development (Charlottesville, VA). Caroline researches school threat assessment and student threat reporting under the mentorship of Dewey Cornell, PhD, in his Youth Violence Project. Prior to graduate school, Caroline worked at UT Southwestern's Center for Depression Research and Clinical Care (Dallas, TX) conducting a pilot study of a school-based mental health program.

Mikael (Mickey) Horissian ‘15 is currently a dermatology resident at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center in Hershey, PA. He completed his intern year in pediatrics at Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, PA.

After graduating from Washington and Lee, McCauley Massie worked at UT Southwestern in the Brown-Goldstein Lab for one year before heading to Emory University where she earned her medical degree. She is now in pediatrics residency at UNC.

Maia graduated from University of Washington School of Law in 2018, then clerked for a federal judge in eastern Washington for one year. Since then, she’s been a practicing attorney for almost exactly 2 years now. She currently practices civil litigation and white-collar criminal defense at a boutique litigation firm in Seattle and is loving it!