MEET THE TEAM

Colleen Quigley

Undergraduate

Colleen is an undergraduate student majoring in Psychological Science at the University of California, Irvine. Her interests are clinical psychology, counseling psychology, and abnormal psychology. She hopes to pursue a PsyD in clinical psychology and eventually begin a career as a clinical psychologist. Through the Child Narratives Lab, she hopes to gain important research experience regarding developmental psychology, memory, and the intersection between psychology and law.

Noor Dalati

Undergraduate

Noor is a third-year undergraduate student majoring in Psychological Science at the University of California, Irvine. She is passionate about clinical psychology, forensic psychology, and social psychology. After graduation, she plans to pursue graduate school in hopes of becoming a licensed therapist. By working in the Child Narratives Lab, she seeks to advance her understanding of the ways children think and interact with the world.

Madeline Macchia

Undergraduate

Madeline is a current undergraduate student majoring in Psychology at University California, Irvine. With interests in neuropsychology, developmental psychology and forensic psychology, she hopes to gain essential research skills and hands-on, real world experience in law psychology through the Child Narratives Lab. Madeline is very passionate about psychology/research and will continue her education with a goal of achieving a PhD in Psychology. 

Sheryll Es​tipona

Undergraduate

Sheryll is a fourth-year undergraduate student majoring in Psychological Science at the University of California, Irvine. Her interests include developmental psychology, social psychology, and abnormal psychology. After graduating, she aims to pursue a career in the child development field. Through her time at the Child Narratives Lab, she looks forward to gaining research experience and enhancing her understanding of children's cognitive development and its influencing factors. 

Cassidy Wong

Undergraduate

Cassidy is an undergraduate student majoring in Psychological Science at the University of California, Irvine. Her interests include industrial-organizational psychology, occupational health psychology, cognitive psychology, and social psychology. She intends to continue her education with a master’s degree in industrial-organizational psychology, aspiring to pursue a professional career in the HR field. Through the Child Narratives Lab, she aims to gain valuable research experience that directly connects to real-life applications, specifically focusing on how suggestibility impacts children's memory and storytelling abilities and its implications in legal settings.

Roxana Olivier

Undergraduate

Roxana is an undergraduate student double majoring in Criminology, Law & Society and Music, with a specialty in Piano Performance at the University of California, Irvine. Her interests are clinical and forensic psychology, in hopes of working for the Behavioral Analysis Unit of the FBI. During after school hours, she tutors children in different languages and teaches them piano as well. Through the Child Narratives Lab, she hopes to further her understanding of how cognitive skills work in encoding memories into people's brains, what aspects of an event people are able to recall, and how they are able to report or talk about it.

Roger Nguyen

Undergraduate

Roger is a third-year undergraduate student majoring in Psychology and minoring in Sociology at the University of California, Irvine. His interests include clinical, developmental, and social psychology. After graduating, he hopes to pursue a career in clinical psychology or social work. Through the Child Narratives Lab, Roger hopes to gain invaluable research experience, expand his understanding of the field, and develop skills that would help foster his academic journey. 

Doris Deng

Undergraduate

Doris is an undergraduate student double majoring in Psychological Science and Education Science at the University of California, Irvine. Her interests are developmental psychology, educational psychology, positive psychology, and I/O psychology. She hopes to explore her interest fields by gaining hands-on experiences and pursuing a Master's degree. Through the Child Narratives Lab, she hopes to gain valuable research skills and deepen her understanding of child development and how social and emotional factors affect children's well-being

Lorena Yanez

Undergraduate

Lorena is an undergraduate student double majoring in Psychological Science and Urban studies. Her interests include developmental psychology, psychopathology, and urban planning. Through the Child Narratives Lab, she hopes to gain research experience, learn from her peers, and a better understanding of thought processes in children.

Katherine Waldman

Undergraduate

Katherine is an undergraduate student double majoring in European Studies and Business. She has a background in childcare, having worked in behavioral health and child gymnastics coaching. She hopes to gain valuable research experience under the guidance of Dr. Klemfuss. Katherine hopes to increase her understanding of the connection between social context and childhood memory recollection and expand her understanding of child psychology.

Katherine Naveda

Undergraduate

Katherine Naveda is an undergraduate student majoring in Psychological Science with a minor in Education. She is interested in child and adolescent development as well as counseling psychology. After completing her undergraduate studies, she plans to attend graduate school to become a guidance counselor in secondary education. Through the Child Narratives Lab, she hopes to gain practical experience that helps her understand students from a holistic perspective.

Jasmine Alcaraz

Undergraduate

Jasmine is an undergraduate student double majoring in Psychological Science and Criminology, Law & Society. She is interested in developmental and forensic psychology as well as family law. Upon graduation, she hopes to pursue her masters in Legal and Forensic Psychology, ultimately working with FBI Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force. Through the Child Narratives Lab, she hopes to gain valuable experience to further understand how adverse childhood experiences affect their memory encoding and recall process. 

Aura Valencia

Postbaccalaureate Student

Aura currently graduated with a B.S. in Clinical Psychology from UC San Diego. She just joined the Post-Bacc Program in Psychological Science at UC Irvine. Her interests are clinical psychology, forensic psychology, and neuropsychology. She hopes to get into graduate school one day and pursue a Ph.D. in either forensic psychology or neuropsychology. Through the Child Narratives Lab, Aura hopes to gain more research experience to become a more competitive applicant for graduate school and to find out which area of psychology interests her more in order to choose a grad program.

Ayumi Wong

Undergraduate

Ayumi is an undergraduate student double majoring in Psychological Science and Public Health Policy at University of California, Irvine. Her interests are clinical psychology, social psychology, and developmental psychology. In the future, she hopes to get her PsyD in Clinical Psychology and work with children. Ayumi joined the Child Narratives Lab in the hopes of learning research skills and more about the cognitive development of children.

Emilia Tretheway

Undergraduate

Emilia is an undergraduate student majoring in Psychology at the University of California, Irvine. Her interests are developmental psychology, social psychology, and psychopathology. In the future she hopes to pursue her masters and continue working with children in a clinical setting.Through the Child Narratives Lab, she hopes to gain research experience and enhance her understanding of how the social world influences children's development.

Hannah Lee

Undergraduate

Hannah is a fourth-year Psychology major at the University of California, Irvine. Her interests include forensic, clinical, and developmental psychology, and she is particularly interested in the effects of adverse childhood experiences and cultural factors on psychological development. Through the Child Narratives Lab, Hannah seeks to gain experience investigating the interactions between psychology and law, specifically in understanding how psychological research can be applied to legal cases involving children. She ultimately aspires to pursue graduate studies in forensic or clinical psychology, with the goal of applying her studies in legal contexts to support vulnerable individuals within the justice system.

Yufei Song

Undergraduate

Yufei is an undergraduate student double majoring in Psychological Science and Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Irvine. Her interests are clinical psychology, counseling psychology, and developmental psychology. After graduating, she aims to pursue a career in the field of clinical psychology. Through her time at the Child Narratives Lab, she hopes to gain valuable research experience and further her understanding of child development.

Xien Zhou

Undergraduate

Xien is an undergraduate student double majoring in Psychological Science and Education Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. Her interests are developmental psychology, clinical psychology, and humanistic psychology. She hopes to pursue a career in counseling psychotherapy. Through the Child Narratives Lab, she hopes to gain practical research experience, learn from her peers, and explore the connections between child/adolescent development, psychology, and mental health.

Donya Anvaripour

Undergraduate

Donya is a fourth year undergraduate student majoring in Psychological Science at the University of California, Irvine. Her interests are clinical psychology, clinical neuroscience, and developmental psychology. She hopes to earn her PsyD in Clinical Psychology and become a Clinical Child Psychologist. Through the Child Narratives Lab, she is interested in broadening her understanding of conducting psychological research and its real world applications.