Katie is an undergraduate research assistant in the Lab for Youth Mental Health. She is originally from the Greater Boston Area and is a junior at Harvard studying psychology with aspirations of becoming a clinical child psychologist and starting her own private practice in the future. Her research interests include investigating the relationship between psychopathology and the family, the role of emotion regulation in treating adolescent mental illness, and improving the effectiveness of youth mental health care more broadly. She is a big Carrie Underwood and Amy Winehouse fan and enjoys reading, singing, walking along the Charles River, and spending quality time with family and friends in her free time.