EDI Graduate Student Committee Members

Meet Your EDI Graduate Student Committee

Membership
Lisa ZhuLisa Zhu
Co-Chair		 Stream: CS&P
Supervisor(s): Lindsay Bodell
Research: Examining the shared mechanisms between anxiety disorders and eating pathology, particularly maladaptive exercise.
Fun Fact: In her spare time, she likes to run and read (25 books for 2025!).
Grace Golden
Grace Golden
Co-Chair		 Stream: CS&P
Supervisor(s): Graham Reid
Research: Access and use of mental health services.
Fun Fact: Loves baking/cooking, exercising, painting.
Alana Graham
Alana Graham
Member		 Stream: SPDP
Supervisor(s): Dr. Rachel Calogero
Research: Gender (stereotypes, roles, norms, masculinity), sexual objectification, system justification theory.
Fun Fact: Enjoys reading fantasy fiction, sharing cat memes, and engaging in advocacy efforts.
Madeline Bloomberg
Madeline Bloomberg
Member		 Stream: CDBS
Supervisor(s): J. Paul Minda
Research: Individual differences in category learning.
Fun Fact: Likes to travel and used to be a competitive dancer.
Hannah Corenblum
Hannah Corenblum
Member		 Stream: CDBS
Supervisor(s): Penny Pexman
Research: Investigating mental state information as a key dimension of semantic meaning and how individual differences in mental state inferencing influence language processing.
Fun Fact: Likes hot yoga, playing pickleball, and hanging out with friends/family!
Emil Dzhunushaliev
Emil Dzhunushaliev
Member		 Stream: SPDP
Supervisor(s): Julian Scheffer
Research: Receiving empathy; hope and optimism.
Fun Fact: Loves reading about history and philosophy
Haley Green
Haley Green
Member		 Stream: CS&P
Supervisor(s): Elizabeth Hayden
Research: Associations between known vulnerability factors for depression and individual depressive symptoms across development.
Fun Fact: Likes baking cakes, playing Animal Crossing, traveling, and spending time with friends and family, and has a one-eyed cat named Milo!
Bianca Iddiols
Bianca Iddiols
Member		 Stream: CS&P
Supervisor(s): Elizabeth Hayden
Research: Children's temperament and internalising psychopathology.
Fun Fact: Likes running, horseback riding, and knitting.
Olivia Ipwanshek
Olivia Ipwanshek
Member		 Stream: CDBS
Supervisor(s): Jody Culham; Paul Gribble 
Research: Motor learning and control, visual perception
Fun Fact: Enjoys painting and playing video games, and has a pet baby conure named Sora!
Karla Kenny
Karla Kenny
Member		 Stream: SPDP
Supervisor(s): Lorne Campbell
Fun Fact: I like hiking, collecting too many rocks, reading paper copies of books, cooking and I am always up for an adventure
Sahba Miramadi
Sahba Mirahmadi
Member		 Stream: SPDP
Supervisor(s): Victoria Esses
Research: Intercultural relations and feminist psychology.
Fun Fact: Enjoys baking, reading, and crocheting.
Claudia Morales Valiente
Claudia Morales Valiente
Member		 Stream: CDBS
Supervisor(s): Ken McRae
Research: Autobiographical memory and future thinking.
Fun Fact: Loves gardening and has a cute black cat named Éowyn Patricia de las Mercedes.
Rafaela Platkin
Rafaela Platkin
Member		 Stream: CDBS
Supervisor(s): Blake Bulter and Ingrid Johnsrude
Research: Listening effort in children.
Fun Fact: Plays 8 instruments and enjoys bingeing Netflix.
Taylor Pratt
Taylor Pratt
Member		 Stream: CS&P
Supervisor(s): Graham Reid
Research: Pediatric sleep.
Fun Fact: Likes snowboarding, golfing, and traveling
Kendall Schmidt
Kendall Schmidt
Member		 Stream: CS&P
Supervisor(s): Lindsay Bodell
Research: Underlying mechanisms of binge eating.
Fun Fact: Likes to read, craft, and try out different sports!

Ashely TranAshley Tran
Member

 Stream: CDBS
Supervisor(s): Debra Jared
Fun Fact: Likes to play badminton and has a podcast