Alexis is a first year PhD student in the Psychological and Brian Sciences program at Dartmouth College. She graduated from the State University of New York at Geneseo with a B.A. in Psychology, and then spent three years as a IRTA research fellow at the National Institutes of Mental Health. Her graduate studies will focus on exploring the neural basis of prosopagnosia, or the inability to recognize familiar faces. In her free time, she enjoys reading, playing softball and volleyball, and taking care of her cat, Ellie. ​