TFL Team

PhD Students

Sadie Kee

Sadie is a Ph.D. student at Georgia Tech who joined The Foundation Lab in Fall 2024. She graduated from Virginia Tech in May 2022 with a B.S. in Psychology, Criminology, and Sociology. She is interested in researching various aspects of high-stress occupations, including team dynamics, individual well-being, and resilience. 

Yuhua (Andy) Li

Yuhua is a Ph.D. candidate who joined The Foundation Lab in Fall 2019. She graduated from Illinois College in May 2019 with a B.S. in both Psychology and Economics. Her research interest revolve around enhancing worker well-being through improving recovery experiences, work-life balance, prosocial behaviors in the workplace, and implementing personal- and organizational-level interventions.

Lauren H. Moran

Lauren is a Ph.D. student at Georgia Tech who joined The Foundation Lab in Fall 2023. She graduated from Florida State University in May 2020 with a B.S. in both Psychology and International Affairs. Her research interests are broadly centered on fostering worker health and well-being in traditional and nontraditional contexts. She is also interested in factors underlying individual perceptions of corporate social responsibility (and irresponsibility), employee benefits, and emerging technologies in the future of work.

Yichen (Steve) Tang

Yichen is a Ph.D. candidate who joined The Foundation Lab in Fall 2019. He graduated from the College of Wooster with a double major in Psychology and Economics. He is interested in understanding team dynamics and ways to improve worker well-being. His overarching goal is to become a thought leader in the field of I-O psychology and build on the knowledge-base of scholars that came before him.

Masters Students

Adriana Cañas

Adriana Cañas is a M.S. psychology student with a concentration in I-O psychology. Her interests include organizational development and using data to drive workplace changes. After graduation she hopes to pursue these interests through industry work.

Sophia Houston

Sophia is a Master’s student who joined the Lab in Spring 2023 as an undergraduate. She graduated from Georgia Tech in August 2024 with a B.S. in Psychology. Sophia is passionate about enhancing worker well-being and advancing workforce development. She aims to support professional and career growth by promoting continuous learning and positive organizational change. With a focus on labor reform, she plans to work in both public and private sectors to create environments that foster development and long-term success for workers and public servants.

Adeba Mukul 

Adeba Mukul is a Psychology Master's at Georgia Tech and joined the Foundation Lab in Spring 2023. Her research interests are in DEI interventions, specifically refugee and immigrant integration. After graduation, she plans to continue her education by attending graduate school for I/O psychology. 

Undergraduate Students

Kinsley  Barrett

Kinsley Barrett is a 3rd-year psychology major, interested in research regarding employee well-being, work-life balance, and improvement of organizational infrastructure. After graduation, she intends to earn an MS in I/O Psychology and a PMP, to continue becoming a well-rounded asset to the field. Eventually, she hopes to work as a People Operations Manager and transform work culture into a more accessible, fulfilling, and equitable space.

Anish Cheekati

Anish Cheekati is a Psychology major at Georgia Tech and joined the lab in Fall 2021. His interests include research in clinical psychology, primarily mental health, as well as worker well-being and work-life balance. After graduation, he plans on going to medical school and later specializing in the field of plastic surgery.

Nat Jain

Nat Jain is a psychology major at Georgia Tech who joined the Foundations Lab in Fall 2023. Their research interests are in the effects of different stressors on mental health and job performance. After college, they plan to go to medical school and eventually become a Clinical Psychiatrist to work with individuals on improving their mental health through a combination of medication and therapy.

Kendal Newton

Kendal Newton is a Psychology major and Biology minor at Georgia Tech. She joined the Foundation Lab in Spring 2023. Her interests include anxiety and stress and their effects on the body. After graduation, she plans to work towards a Ph.D.; currently, she is considering forensic psychology or clinical psychology. 

Elizabeth Skibiel

Elizabeth Skibiel is a 4th year psychology major at Georgia Tech minoring in the science of Mental Health and Well-being with a concentration in business. She joined the foundation Lab in Spring 2024. In spring 2024, Elizabeth was a part of the steadfast project, and she joined the AFRL project in summer 2024. Her interests include industrial organizational psychology and data analytics. After graduating, she hopes to pursue her either a master’s in I/O psychology or a masters/certificate in data analytics. 

High School Students

Mridula Bharathi

Mridula Bharathi is a senior at Alpharetta High School and joined The Foundation Lab in Fall 2023. She is interested in researching neural reorganization after stroke and how to improve worker well-being in medical teams and such high-stakes teams. After graduation, she plans to pursue a degree in Neuroscience.

Jin Han

Jin Han joined the lab in the Summer of 2022. She is currently a senior at Innovation Academy and a rising freshman at the University of Pennsylvania. She is interested in researching neuroradiology, specifically the use of advanced imaging techniques to study neural connectivity and brain plasticity with neurological disorders. She is also passionate about industrial-organizational (I/O) psychology, particularly examining how workplace design and environmental factors influence productivity and mental health in high-stakes professions. After graduation, she plans to pursue a degree in Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering.

Alumni

Caterina Obenauf

Summer 2019 - Fall 2020


PhD student at the University of Tennessee studying counseling psychology 

Caroline Shewmaker

Spring 2021 - Fall 2022

Consulting Analyst at Accenture

Alicia Nguyen

Spring 2021 - Spring 2023

Taylor Allmen

Spring 2021 - Fall 2022


Vendor Relationship Analyst at Koch
I/O Psychology Graduate Student at UGA

Gracie Rehberg

Spring 2021 - Spring 2023

Samira Hossain

Spring 2021 - Spring 2023

Jason Wu

Fall 2021 - Fall 2022

Vicky Yu

Fall 2022 - Spring 2023

Adhrija Anbuchelian

Fall 2022 - Spring 2023

Eryn Earley

Fall 2022 - Spring 2023

Health Consulting Analyst at Mercer

Hannah Lariscy

Fall 2022 - Summer 2023


Tech Customer Marketing Specialist at Honeywell

Abby Granberry

Spring 2023 - Summer 2023

Danielle Amrani 

Spring 2023 - Fall 2024

Alyssa Davenport

Fall 2021 - Spring 2024


Ph.D. Student at Clemson University

Allison Doyle

Spring 2023 - Fall 2023

Claudia Gomez

Fall 2023 - Spring 2024


Master of Public Health at The George Washington University

Grace Johnson

Fall 2022 - Spring 2023

Erin So Kim

Fall 2022 - Spring 2024


Jena Patel

Spring 2023 - Spring 2024

Ana Peralta Rolka

Fall 2022 - Fall 2023


Matthys Serfontein

Spring 2023 - Spring 2024

Emily Sheffield

Spring 2022 - Spring 2024