Grace Haase, B.A.

1st Year

Grace graduated from Amherst College in 2021 with a B.A. in Psychology. She then worked for three years at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, where she coordinated a clinical treatment trial examining anorexia nervosa in youth. Grace’s research interests include understanding risk and maintenance factors of disordered eating to identify potential treatment targets.

Jennifer White, B.A.

1st Year

Jennifer graduated with a B.A. in Psychology and Public Policy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She worked as a research assistant at the Center of Excellence for Eating Disorders (CEED) in Chapel Hill conducting clinical trial study visits examining hormones and binge eating and recruiting participants for large-scale genetic research studies. Jennifer's research interests include examining transdiagnostic risk and maintenance factors and how they vary across different racial and gender groups.  

Emily Woodworth, B.A.

1st Year

Emily graduated from the University of Virginia in 2021 with a BA in psychology and a minor in health and wellbeing. She then worked for three years as a clinical research coordinator in the Center for Health Outcomes and Interdisciplinary Research at Massachusetts General Hospital. Emily's research interests are in the perinatal period with a focus on body image, disordered eating, and other health behaviors.

Anna Love, B.S.

2nd Year

Anna graduated from the University of South Alabama with a B.S. in Biology, and a minor in psychology. During her time as an undergrad, she worked as an independent researcher in the Eating Behaviors Lab, with a predominant research focus of the potential maladaptive consequences of rigid healthy eating. Anna’s primary research interests include understanding barriers to healthy eating and how those barriers might contribute to the development of disordered eating, and promoting positive body image development in young children.

Kayla Costello, M.Sc.

3rd Year

Kayla received her M.Sc. in psychology from the University College London with her thesis focused on adolescents with low-weight eating disorders. She then worked for two years in a residential clinic for adolescents with eating disorders and for three years as a research coordinator at the Center of Excellence for Eating Disorders at Mount Sinai. Kayla's research interests are in the role of executive functioning and decision-making in anorexia nervosa.

Christina Sanzari. M.A.

5th Year (on internship at Charleston Consortium)

Christina graduated from Skidmore College in 2018 with a B.A. in Psychology. She then worked as a research assistant for two years in the Mood and Behavior Lab at Brown University, studying the risk factors and cognitive processes that influence suicidality in adolescents. Christina’s research interests include the psychosocial risk factors related to eating disorder development in adolescence, and maladaptive eating and health-related behaviors in athletes.

Susana Cruz Garcia, M.A.

5th Year (on internship at Atlanta VA)

Susana received her B.A. in Forensic Psychology from John Jay College of Criminal Justice while also earning the Bernand Locke Award for outstanding achievement in psychology. Her research agenda includes the study of mental illness and eating behaviors using a psycho-social perspective.