https://education.umkc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/CEP-Newsletter-2012-13.pdf
I think this is her in 2012.
Meet the New 2012 PhD Cohort! I grew up in New Brighton, a suburb of St. Paul, Minnesota. I majored in Psychology and English at Hamline University, which is only about 20 minutes away from New Brighton. During my senior year one of my professors was writing a book on stigma and mental illness and offered students the chance to do their honors research to potentially contribute to the book. She also had access to children at a private school, and I thought I should take advantage of the opportunity as research with children is very difficult with the resources of a small private university. In the end, my experiment yielded fewer significant results than I had hoped, but for a good reason: participants were actually more tolerant than expected. After I graduated in 2008 I moved to Iowa City and worked as a Psychiatric Nursing Assistant in a locked adult inpatient psychiatric unit at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. I originally pictured private practice as my sole career goal; however, working at the hospital exposed me to the many negative aspects of the mental health system. Additionally, although I really liked my job and most of the people I worked with, I also witnessed numerous expressions of stigma, from all levels of professionals, toward people with mental illness. My experiences at the hospital led me to pursue a PhD because I felt it would provide the most opportunities to contribute to change. Broadly, my career goals now extend to a desire to conduct research, teach students, supervise practice, and promote advocacy. In a general sense, I am interested in decreasing all forms of stigma and discrimination and so UMKC’s focus on multiculturalism and diversity became a major factor in my decision to pursue a degree at UMKC. Thus, my research interests also include feminist, multicultural, LGBT, and other related issues. For fun I have always loved video and computer games, but I also like to get up and move around. I spent many awesome vacations near the Minnesota North Shore hiking through the wilderness and skiing and snowboarding down Duluth’s Spirit Mountain. I love to travel and have had multiple opportunities to go to Europe. I played in the Hamline University orchestra, and (in hopes of starting up again) I brought my cello with me to Kansas City.
