Rachel graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in 2015 with a B.S. in Psychology. She then joined the Genetic Epidemiology Branch of the National Institutes of Mental Health as a post-baccalaureate Intramural Research Training Awardee under the mentorship of Dr. Kathleen Merikangas where she worked on a family study of mood and anxiety disorders. While at NIH, Rachel developed an interest in understanding risk for self-injurious thoughts and behaviors (SITB) and pursued this interest as a research assistant at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. As a member of the Adolescent Mood and Behavior Lab, Rachel worked under Dr. Richard Liu coordinating several studies examining the underlying mechanisms of teen suicidality, specifically how impulsivity, life stress, and neurocognitive indices confer risk for self-injurious thoughts and behaviors. Rachel is currently a second-year graduate student at Temple University in Dr. Lauren Alloy's Mood and Cognition Lab. As a 2019 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, Rachel is interested in using ambulatory assessment methodologies like ecological momentary assessment and actigraphy to understand how sleep and circadian rhythms increase risk for mood episodes and help predict SITB in adolescents.