Meet Our Alumni
Emma Baranowski
Emma (she/her) is a Northeastern graduate who majored in Psychology. Emma founded PH@NU and functioned as our student leader. In this position she worked on editing and executive functions for us. With her interest in humanistic psychology, she worked closely with Professor Daniels to create a volume for the Alien salon. Her other interests include feminist theory, child development, and collegiate women’s hockey. For Emma’s first Co-op, she worked as a counselor at Walden Behavioral Care. For her second Co-op she worked at the Pierce School. Emma also held the position of secretary in the PsiChi Psychology Honors Society at Northeastern.
Vanessa Cha
Vanessa Cha (she/her) is Northeastern graduate who majored in Psychology with a minor in Public Health (Pre-Med track). Her main focus was working on a research database for scholars. She presented her paper “The other side of meditation: Unusual mental phenomena and their potential risk factors” at the 2023 Psychology & the Other conference. This presentation was in conjunction with the Meditation Research Program at Harvard Medical School where Vanessa was working as a research assistant. Vanessa was also a Mindfulness Fellow at Northeastern’s Center for Spirituality, Dialogue, and Service where she led weekly meditations.
Katherine Yang
Katherine (she/they) is a Northeastern graduate who majored in Behavioral Neuroscience and minored in French. She worked with Emma Baranowski on a poster about altered personality development in twins and its connection to eating disorders. Katherine also presented a poster on forgiveness, gender, and its alternatives. She co-created PH@NU’s website and is an editor for our book projects. At Northeastern, Katherine conducted experimental philosophy research, was Advocacy Co-Chair at the Active Minds club, and volunteered for the Crisis Text Line. She did her first Co-op as a counselor at Walden Behavioral Care and her second Co-op at the Affective and Brain Sciences Lab. Katherine is currently in her first year at UMass Chan Medical school.
Sienne Le
Sienne Le (she/her) is a Northeastern Psychology graduate. As a long-term member of PH@NU, she contributed to many areas of its development. She took her poster Theory As Colonialism: The Existential Drifter and Indigenous Resistance to the NU London Psychology & the Other Conference. She has been accepted into the MSW Program at the University of Chicago.
Rose-Maëlle Florestal
Rose-Maëlle (they/them) Northeastern Graduate (Psychology major, philosophy minor). They have done editing work and the Dante and Alien volumes, and have presented two posters–“We Shall Be Reunited: The Trajectory of Hope in Genshin Impact” and “The Great Mother and Her Wounded Child: Or, What an Everything Bagel Taught Me About My Mother”–at the Psychology and the Other conferences in Boston 2023 and London 2024 respectively. They have previously served as the “Buddy Coordinator” for the London conference to ensure every attendee was accounted for. Rose is interested in popularizing philosophical and decolonial psychology, metamodernism, and radical hope. She currently works at the Perkins School for the Blind.
Alexandra Maropakis
Alex (she/her) is a Northeastern graduate (Behavioral Neuroscience major). She presented her poster at Psychology & The Other 2024 in London on the individuation of Sophie from Howl’s Moving Castle (2004), using Jungian archetypes, social role theory, and Van Gennep’s rites of passage as a vehicle for her analysis. She is directing the creation of a Psychological Humanities Open-Source journal, PHOS. She is continuing her education at Northeastern, pursuing a PhD in cell and molecular neuroscience.
Payson Schweizer
Payson (she/her) Northeastern Psychology graduate. She attended the 2024 PATO conference in London where she presented a poster on the ethics of repressed vs. falsified memories and the morality of uncovering them in therapy through the utilization of the video game Alice: Madness Returns (2011). She has also contributed to PH@NU through organizing bonding activities within the group.
Natalia Rodriguez
Natalia (she/her) Northeastern graduate (Criminal Justice and Psychology major). She presented her poster, “Gender Biases & Mental Health in Good Will Hunting” for the 2023 Psychology & the Other Conference. Natalia is interested in the role of psychology and mental health in the criminal justice system. She is currently attending Law School at UCLA.
Ella Lanzaro
Ella Lanzaro Northeastern graduate (Psychology major, BNS minor). She has previously completed clinical research co-ops at MGH Depression Clinical and Research Program and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Department of Neurology. She presented a poster Us, our projections, and the media: Hyperpersonal virtual communication at the Psychology and the Other Conference 2024. Ella is pursuing her Clinical Psychology doctorate at Farley Dickenson.
Gracie Vogel
Gracie (she/her) Northeastern graduate (Health Science and Psychology combined major, Journalism Practice minor). Gracie presented a poster entitled “‘Nice Guy Syndrome’ and Benevolent Sexism in Heterosexual Relations” at the Psychology & the Other conference in October 2023. Her main contribution to the group was through researching scholars. She was a research assistant in Northeastern’s Social Emotions Lab and at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
Ana Harb
Ana (she/they) is Northeastern graduate (Criminal Justice and Psychology major, Music Industry minor). Ana served as the social media director for the team. She is interested in all-things mystical, and has worked on editing the second volume of Dante and the Other. She is also interested in literary theory, spanning feminist and queer postmodernist and post-structuralist theory. She is particularly interested in exploring how our physical form is molded by the outright rules and social contracts set by society.
Erin Harrington
Erin Harrington (she/her) Northeastern graduate (Psychology major, Theatre minor). Erin worked on editing the Alien volume. She presented a poster for the Psychology & the Other conference, 2023, about Levinas’s ideas of the Other in the television show Lost. Her interests include humanistic psychology and applied psychology. Erin completed a Co-op as a Mental Health Specialist working with patients with schizophrenia and bipolar disorders at Mclean Hospital.
Kaitlyn Guay
Kaitlyn (she/her) is a Northeastern Psychology graduate. Kaitlyn served as an editor for volumes. She worked on a poster about the interconnections between trauma, personality structural stability, and The Shining. Her interests beyond studies include personal training and rock climbing. Kaitlyn is a member of the NU Climbing Team and competes as a Semi-Pro Athlete in both the Collegiate Series and the USAC North American Cup Series.
Grace Flanagan
Grace (she/her) Northeastern Psychology graduate. She presented a poster at the APA Division 32 conference in Atlanta, GA about nostalgia as a resource for healing from childhood trauma. For her first co-op, she worked as a teaching assistant at The Garden Academy in Paris, France. She also worked as the director of a trauma-informed summer program for children from disadvantaged backgrounds. Recently, Grace has accepted a position as a Community Residence Counselor at McLean Hospital’s Klarman Eating Disorders Center. She is pursuing a PhD in Clinical Psychology, aspiring to work as a child psychologist.