People

Professor, Department of Psychiatry
B.S., Neurobiology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ph.D., Neuroscience, University of Iowa
Postdoctoral Fellowship, National Institutes of Health

Curriculum Vitae

Twitter: @talia_r_cohen

B.A., Psychological & Brain Sciences, Washington University

Talia (she/her) is a graduate student in the UW Clinical Psychology Program. Talia’s research interests include the treatment and prevalence of mental illness in correctional facilities with a particular interest in psychosis, racial disparities in mental health care and justice system involvement, and the use of machine learning methods to better understand recidivism and other negative outcomes.

B.A., Psychology, University of Puget Sound

Mickela earned their Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of Puget Sound with a minor in Neuroscience. Prior to working in the Koenigs lab, she worked as a research assistant in Tor Wager’s cognitive neuroscience laboratory and Dr. Josh Cisler’s Neurocircuitry of Trauma and PTSD lab. Mickela is currently a PhD student in the UW Integrated Graduate Major (IGM) program. Their research focuses on the relationship between trauma exposure and psychopathic traits in incarcerated populations, (e.g., overlapping symptomatology, neural correlates), with the goal of informing the improvement of mental health resources for individuals who are incarcerated. In her free time, she likes to spend time with her cat, Winston, and play Ultimate Frisbee.

Twitter: @KatieKeola

B.S., Psychology and Neuroscience, Virginia Tech; M.S., Psychology, UW-Madison

Katie (she/her) is a graduate student in the UW Clinical Psychology Program. Katie’s research focuses on how to create feasible, effective, and scalable mental health assessments and treatment strategies for people who are currently incarcerated. She has a particular interest in understanding the relationship among trauma and antisocial personality traits and hopes to connect her research to policy in order to integrate science and evidenced-based care into the carceral system. CV

Twitter: @rodrikodile

B.A., Psychology, New York University; M.S., Clinical Psychology, UW-Madison

Odile (she/her) is a graduate student in the UW Clinical Psychology Program. Odile’s research centers on increasing access to and effectiveness of mental health care for individuals who are currently incarcerated. She has a particular interest in the relationship among PTSD, emotion regulation, and externalizing behavior.

Twitter: @shelby_s_weav

B.S. Psychology and Neurobiology, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Shelby (she/her) is a graduate student in the UW Psychology Individualized Graduate Major Program. Shelby is primarily interested in studying trauma exposure among incarcerated individuals and the interaction between symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and psychopathic traits. She is also broadly interested in mental health in incarcerated populations, especially expanding knowledge of evidence-based treatments for incarcerated individuals. CV

B.S., Psychology, University of Missouri-Columbia

Arianna (she/her) is a first-year graduate student in the UW Clinical Psychology Program. Arianna’s research interests broadly include studying mental health assessments and treatments within incarcerated populations. She has a particular interest in studying the implications of racial traumas, racial disparities, and cultural competency of mental health care. She is currently focusing on examining how these factors could potentially influence an individual’s resiliency, motivations and mindsets during re-entry programs, and recidivism outcomes. CV

B.S., Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison

As a Research Specialist in the lab, Madi assists with coordination and data collection for a prison-based project. This project examines the efficacy of group PTSD therapies for incarcerated individuals. Madi’s research interests are broad, as they include the mental health of incarcerated individuals, and incorporating evidence-based treatments into correctional facilities. She is also interested in the access to mental health treatments for this population. In her free time, she enjoys biking, taking long walks, and getting ice cream.

B.A., Psychology & Social Behavior and Criminology, Law, & Society, UC Irvine

Valerie (She/Her) is leading a prison education project with the Incarceration and Mental Health Lab, Odyssey Beyond Bars, and the Wisconsin Department of Corrections. Her personal research interests are interventions to help alleviate public and self-stigma surrounding mental health, incarceration, and homelessness.

B.S., Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Monika was a graduate student in the Clinical Psychology Program. She is currently a licensed psychologist and Assistant Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry at the Weill College of Medicine at Cornell University.

Twitter: @phil_deming

B.A., Psychology and German, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Ph.D., Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Phil (he/him) was a graduate student in the UW Psychology Individualized Graduate Major Program. He is currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Northeastern University in the Interdisciplinary Affective Science Laboratory.

B.A., Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Jaryd was a graduate student in the Clinical Psychology Program. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health at The Ohio State University.

B.A., Cognitive Science, University of Pennsylvania
M.A., Public Affairs, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ph.D., Neuroscience, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Cole was a graduate student in the dual degree Neuroscience and Public Policy Program. He is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard Medical School in the lab of Suzanne Haber.

B.S., Biology, McGill University
Ph.D., Neuroscience, University of Wisconsin-Madison
M.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison

Julian was a graduate student in the Neuroscience Training Program as part of the Medical Scientist Training Program. He is currently a resident in Neurology at the University of California-San Francisco.

B.A., Psychology and Comparative Religion, University of Iowa
Ph.D., Neuroscience, University of Iowa

Carissa was a postdoctoral fellow at UW-Madison. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Psychological Sciences Department at the University of Missouri-St. Louis (UMSL).

B.S., Neuroscience and English, Furman University
Ph.D., Neuroscience, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Maia was a graduate student in the Neuroscience Training Program. Maia’s research interests include the functional role of prefrontal cortex, and prefrontal-striatal interactions during value-based decision-making. She was an IRTA Postdoctoral Trainee at the NIH in the lab of Betsy Murray. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Psychology Department at Sarah Lawrence College

B.A., Neuroscience, Skidmore College
Twitter: @ReismanSamantha

As a Research Specialist in the lab, Samantha assisted with coordination of and data collection for a prison-based project examining the efficacy of group PTSD therapies for incarcerated individuals. Her personal research interests include understanding how deficits in cognitive function and emotion regulation may contribute to aggression, antisocial behavior, and risky decision-making. She is currently a graduate student in Cognitive Science at Brown University.

B.S., Psychology and Biology, University of Iowa

Ph.D. Clinical Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Brett (he/him) was a graduate student in the UW Clinical Psychology Program. Brett’s PhD work broadly involved investigating brain-behavioral relationships and he conducted his dissertation work on understanding the neural correlates of traumatic brain injury among incarcerated individuals. Brett completed his predoctoral clinical internship at the VA Maine Healthcare System and is currently working with Dr. Benjamin Hampstead as a Neuropsychology Fellow at the University of Michigan/VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System Consortium.

B.A., Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ph.D., Neuroscience, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Rick was a graduate student in the Neuroscience Training Program. Rick’s PhD work used MRI and eye tracking to understand the role of vmPFC in recognizing emotional facial expressions. He is currently a data scientist and program director at Insight Data Science, Silicon Valley (insighthealthdata.com).