Emily graduated from Colgate University in 2021 with a B.A. in Psychology and a minor in Sociology. As an undergraduate, she worked as a research assistant in the Social Cognition and Intergroup Processes Lab at Northwestern University and the Child Psychology Lab at Colgate University, as well as completed a senior honors thesis investigating the impact of social support on mental health outcomes during the transition into college. During her time at Colgate, she also actively engaged with initiatives advocating for survivors of sexual assault and interpersonal violence on campus. After graduation, Emily worked as a Clinical Research Coordinator at Massachusetts General Hospital’s Home Base Program where she evaluated trauma-focused interventions and conducted research on PTSD, traumatic brain injury, and substance use disorders in military service members and veterans. Emily joined the AU Clinical Psychology program as a first-year graduate student in the Fall of 2024. Her research interests focus on PTSD and interpersonal violence, with an emphasis on promoting resilience and safety in survivors of sexualized and gender-based violence and improving systemic responses to such violence. Specifically, Emily is interested in identifying trauma-related risk, resilience, and maintenance factors and exploring how individual, interpersonal, and contextual factors intersect to influence survivors' post-trauma experiences and outcomes. Her goal is to use this research to improve and develop trauma-focused intervention and prevention programs for interpersonal violence survivors and to evaluate and enhance trauma-informed practices within social services and institutions, including universities, mental health services, healthcare, and the judicial system.