Meet Vanessa

Vanessa is currently a Counseling Psychology Ph.D. Student at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow.

She earned her B.A. in Psychology from Columbia University and spent two years working as a Clinical Research Coordinator at the University of Pennsylvania. Despite missing the East Coast everyday, Minneapolis is slowly growing on her.

She is broadly interested in Black mental health with a focus on Black women and other Black people with intersecting marginalized identities.

Outside of graduate school and podcasting, Vanessa spends most of her time lifting heavy weights, playing video games, reading, or writing creatively. She is always haunted by the feeling that she doesn’t have enough tea.