Sarah received her B.A. in Neuroscience and Behavior from Wesleyan University in 2017. As an undergraduate, Sarah worked in two separate labs at Yale University studying neuroimmunology and visual system development. As she began to take more psychology courses in her later college years, Sarah became increasingly interested in studying cognitive development as it relates to psychiatric disease. After graduation, she began working in the Environment, Brain, and Behavior Lab at Columbia University, where she spent two years using functional neuroimaging to study the neural correlates of socio-emotional deficits in children with neurodevelopmental disorders. Sarah started at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in 2019, where she is currently a 2nd year Neuroscience PhD student. Sarah’s graduate research aims to combine neuroimaging and computational modeling to study deficits in social behavior and decision making in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Misophonia. Outside of the lab, Sarah participates in neuroscience mentorship and community outreach. She also loves cooking, photography, and hiking!