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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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Esther Choi ’17 is a senior project manager at the marketing and advertising company Edelman located in New York City.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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Crystal Santos graduated in 2016.