Ellis DeJardin is a first-year graduate student in the Clinical Psychology program at George Washington University. She received her B.A. in Psychology from Yale University in 2022 and then worked as a research assistant at the Center for Autism Research at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia for three years. Broadly, she is interested in studying how and/or why psychosocial functioning and social-emotional cognition differ in clinical (e.g. anxiety) and/or marginalized (e.g. LGBTQ+) populations. Furthermore, she is interested in investigating how various emotion regulation strategies can either exacerbate or mitigate healthy psychosocial processing patterns, with hopes of improving and disseminating accessible education and intervention resources that can help build social-emotional resilience and strengthen positive emotion regulation tactics.