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Kathryn C. Kemp
Ph.D. in progress M.S. 2019 Kathryn (Katie) is a fourth-year graduate student in UIUC’s Clinical/Community Psychology program. After receiving her B.A. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Katie worked as a lab manager in the Schizophrenia and Social Cognition lab at the University of Texas at Dallas. Her research currently focuses on the expression of affective comorbidity across the schizophrenia spectrum, with a particular emphasis on how the interaction of symptoms uniquely affects functioning. |
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Talia Berson
Ph.D. in progress M.S. in progress Talia is a third-year doctoral student in the Clinical/Community Psychology program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She received her BA from University of California, Los Angeles where she conducted research in psychiatry and behavioral sciences. After graduating, she served as Clinical Research Coordinator for the Dr. Elliott Sherr's Brain Development Research Program within pediatric neurology at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center. Her research hopes to expand the understanding of factors leading to the emergence of bipolar psychopathology and how the course and prognosis of bipolar disorder differs by individual. |
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Mahogany Monette
Ph.D. in progress M.S. in progress Mahogany is a first-year doctoral student in the Clinical/Community Psychology program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She received her B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Psychology and African, African American, and Diaspora Studies. After graduating, she served as Study Coordinator for the I-CAT study under the guidance of Dr. David Penn at UNC. She then worked with Dr. Kyle Minor as an IPREP fellow researching racial differences in social functioning across the schizophrenia spectrum. Her research focuses on risk and resilience factors for African Americans across the schizophrenia spectrum. More specifically, she is interested in the role of trauma and racial identity as risk factors for the development of psychosis. |
