meet our lab staff
Current research assistants for the Stroud Lab!
Class of 2023
Kaiz Esmail
Kaiz Esmail (he/him) is a Biology and Psychology double major who joined the Stroud Lab in Spring 2022. His work in the lab includes collaborating on the Project for Advancing Women's Health and his own thesis project, the Adversity and Psychopathology in Asylees Study. Kaiz is particularly interested in studying early adversity, lifetime trauma, and biological markers of stress in the context of psychopathology. A fun fact about Kaiz is that he is both a twin and a gemini, an identity which he proudly refers to as "twin^2."
Class of 2023
April Su
April Su (she/her) is a Psychology, East Asian Language and Culture major, and Neuroscience concentrator. She has been working on the Project for Advancing Women's Health since January 2021. She is interested in how early adversity alters specific affective-cognitive processes and their underlying neural networks to confer risk for the development of internalizing psychopathology. During her free time, she enjoys eating while watching true crime documentaries, thrifting, and cooking.
Class of 2023
Tiffany Park
Tiffany Park (she/her) is a Psychology major and has been working at the Project for Advancing Women’s Health since Fall 2021. She is particularly interested in how early life experiences affect the development of psychopathology, and in early intervention programs that research in this area can inform.
Class of 2023.5
Margaux Kanamori
Margaux Kanamori (she/her) is an English and Psychology double major and has been working in the lab since Spring 2021. Her research experiences have focused on women's mental health, including maternal mental health, substance use among young women, and depression and life stress. On campus, she also sings in the Ephlats and is involved with the Record!
Class of 2024
Bella Nadel
Bella Nadel (she/her) is a Psychology major and has been working in the lab since Spring 2022. Her research experience has included the Project for Advancing Women's Health, the etiology and treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder, and emotion regulation and mindfulness in children. Bella's hobbies include iced chai lattes, water polo, and watching movies.
Class of 2024
Wongi Ayele
Wongi Ayele (she/her) is a Psychology major working in the lab since Fall 2022. She has worked on the Project for Advancing Women's Health and examining mental illness amongst East African youth. Her research interests include cultural psychology, and immigrant mental health. Wongi loves writing, learning new languages and learning about spirituality.
Class of 2025
Zoe Price
Zoe Price (she/they) is a prospective Psychology and Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies double major and has been working in the lab since Fall 2022. Zoe is interested in how different measurements of cortisol can be used to understand psychopathology. A fun fact about Zoe is that she loves to make earrings.
