Graduate Students

Anj is from Kingston, Jamaica and graduated from Washington University in December 2022 with a major in Cognitive Neuroscience and minor in Children’s Studies. She is broadly interested in children’s social cognitive development. Her research focuses on children’s selective social learning, specifically the epistemic and social factors at play in children’s trust judgments of unfamiliar individuals. Anj is particularly interested in understanding how race influences the selective nature of social learning, and looks forward to exploring these relationships while working with a diverse group of children across the St. Louis area.

Grace Drake is a fourth-year graduate student from Hot Springs, AR. She received her bachelor’s degree in Psychology with a minor in Health and Human Values from Davidson College, outside of Charlotte, NC, in 2019. Grace is broadly interested in understanding and reducing discrimination, with a focus on confrontations of bias and perceptions of allyship. From a developmental lens, Grace is studying how children learn what racial discrimination is and how they should respond.