Our Team
2024-2025 Executive Board Members
Kaley Davis
President
Kaley is a graduate student in the clinical psychology doctoral program at Marquette University. Her research interests focus on the intersection between stress and environmental factors, and their influence on the development of emotion processing and its associated neural circuits in individuals with psychopathology, namely post-traumatic stress disorder. She is particularly interested in identifying factors that predict resilience and post-traumatic growth following traumatic experiences.
Laura McGuigan
Vice President
Laura is a 4th year graduate student in the clinical psychology doctoral program at Marquette University. Her research interests focus on the neuropsychological and emotional sequelae of neurological disorder and injury. In particular, she is interested in the role of neuropsychological assessment in intervention and treatment planning. In her free time, she likes to go on walks by Lake Michigan and hang out with her cat, Lily.
Sarah Rolli
Secretary
Sarah is a 5th year Ph.D. student in the Biological Sciences program at Marquette University in the Sontag lab. Her research interests are in how proteins misfold in the cell to cause neurodegenerative diseases and the systems in place to respond to misfolded proteins. Outside of lab, Sarah enjoys going on hikes with her corgi-beagle mix and reading sci-fi novels.
Sumaiya Chowdhury
Communications Officer
Sumaiya is a second-year PhD student in the Department of Biological Sciences at Marquette University. Her research interest focuses on understanding how organisms respond to environmental stressors. More specifically, she is interested in investigating how temperature stress affects organisms' fertility, and to study this, she is using nematode (C. elegans) as a model organism. Apart from working in the lab, Sumaiya loves reading books and cooking.
Julia Harris
Community Liaison Officer
Julia is a 5th year graduate student in the clinical psychology doctoral program at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her research interests focus on social drivers of health and the risks and protective factors of risky substance use behaviors. Additionally, she is interested in the mechanism of neuropsychological correlates and brain development that contribute to risky substance use. In her free time, she likes to walk her black lab, Paige!
Dr. Jacklynn Fitzgerald
National Liaison & Treasurer
Dr. Jacklynn Fitzgerald is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Marquette University. She received her PhD from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2017 in Psychology with an emphasis on Behavioral Neuroscience and completed her postdoctoral fellowship in affective neuroscience at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee in 2019. Her research is on the neurobiology of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and she investigates how the neurobiological underpinnings of fear conditioning are related to symptoms of the disorder. Her work is highly collaborative and involves translating research from preclinical/rodent models to clinical work. At Marquette, she is the director of the Translational Affective Neuroscience lab.
In addition to research, Jacklynn has consistently held leadership and service positions with a focus on advancing women in science. She was previously the President of the GWIS Chicago chapter in 2015 and a National Liaison for GWIS Chicago in 2016, where she started a mentorship program.