Olive is a second-year Ph.D student in the neuroscience program at UCSF. She is in the lab of Jeanne Paz at the Gladstone Institutes, where she studies thalamocortical functioning following a brain injury. She is interested in better understanding how the brain is impacted after a stroke. Olive grew up in San Francisco and went to undergrad at Macalester College. She loves hiking, camping, trying new restaurants, and binge watching reality tv shows!