Our Team

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Current Team Members:

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Rebecca Waller

Director

rwaller@sas.upenn.edu
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Yael Paz

Post-doctoral Researcher

yaelpa@sas.upenn.edu
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Emily Perkins

Post-doctoral Researcher

perkinse@sas.upenn.edu,
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Samantha Perlstein

Graduate Student

sperl@sas.upenn.edu
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Kristin Murtha

Graduate Student

krmurtha@sas.upenn.edu,
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Alexis Broussard

Graduate Student

abrou@sas.upenn.edu
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María Álvarez Voces

Visiting Graduate Student

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Emily Volbert

Visiting Graduate Student

evolbert@ukaachen.de
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Yuheiry Rodriguez

Senior Research Coordinator

yuheiry@sas.upenn.edu
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Abigail Bordeianu (she/her)

Research Specialist

abiwa@sas.upenn.edu
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Izzy Mossin (she/her)

Research Specialist

imossin@sas.upenn.edu
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Helena Saven

Research Assistant

hqsaven@sas.upenn.edu
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Lulia Tesfamariam

Research Assistant

lulia@sas.upenn.edu
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Delaney Smith

Research Assistant

delsmith@sas.upenn.edu
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Ally Muller

Research Assistant

allymull@sas.upenn.edu
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Andrew Dowling

Research Assistant

adowl@sas.upenn.edu
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Sarah Yi

Research Assistant

yisarah@sas.upenn.edu
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Victoria Yim

Research Assistant

vyim@sas.upenn.edu
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Lilah Harvey

Research Assistant

lharvey1@sas.upenn.edu
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Sheel Patel

Research Assistant

sheelp@sas.upenn.edu
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D’Ayra Johnson

Research Assistant

dayraj@sas.upenn.edu
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Bea Corio

Research Assistant

beacorio@sas.upenn.edu
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Orencia Casimiro

Research Assistant

orencia@sas.upenn.edu
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Richard Paget

Research Assistant

rpaget@sas.upenn.edu
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Deontae Johnson

Research Assistant

deontaej@sas.upenn.edu
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Mariah Wright-Moses

Research Assistant

mariahwm@sas.upenn.edu
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Collaborators:

Mindcore
Center for Outreach, Research, and Education (mindCORE)
Base
Biobehavioral and Social-Emotional Development Lab (BASE)
CHOP
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Perelman
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
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Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Center for Autism Research

Alumni:

Lia Broderick

Maddie Fair

Maia Chester

Maya Ifkin-Ofer

Melissa Murin

Natalie Corbett

Quentin Wedderburn

Samia El-Erian

Sherry Zhang

Sim Kohli

Sonia Reardon

Sylvia Zhao

Tiffany Schell

Theodora Athanitis

Mahaa Ayub

Erin Brown

Caitlyn Kim

Kayla Malone

Abigail Presti

Alina Mizrahi

Beatriz Dominguez Alvarez

Brin Gammer

Callie Jones

Carly Miron

Christina Steele

Donnisa Edmonds

Edie Graber

Emily Hong

Emma Satlof-Bedrick

Grace Daley

Hanna Lembcke

Jennifer Kwon

Joshua Steinberg

Julia Pearson

Katherine All

Ayomide Popoola

Rista Plate

Vanessa Lu

Jovina Thomas

Madeline Haugen

Michaela Flum

Alyssa Shah

Ryan Lee

Alex Bui

Seniors Class of 2024

Chinyelu Ojukwu

Sydney Sun

Alasia Williams

Seniors Class of 2025

Sophia Nehme

Liesl Dentinger

Miranda Cochran

Sophia (Jojo) Milan-Howells

Nicole Mendez

Sadie Kilar

Jordan Maddox

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