Ashley Engstrom

First-year Graduate Student in the Child-Track Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program

Ashley is a first-year graduate student in the Child-Track Clinical Psychology doctoral program at Penn State. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology in 2024 from the University of Virginia, where she was an undergraduate research assistant in Dr. Stefanie Sequeira's lab. After graduating she worked as project coordinator in the FAM Lab under Dr. Burkhouse where she will continue to work as a graduate student. Her primary research interest is utilizing neuroimaging methods (e.g. EEG) to study how different social contextual factors, such as peer relationships and parenting, shape the neural correlates underlying the positive valence system to confer risk for the emergence of internalizing disorders across critical windows of development. For fun she likes to go hiking with her dog Teddy and spend time with friends and family.