During my undergraduate studies, I worked as an Honors Intern for the Federal Bureau of Investigation and served as a research assistant in multiple labs, including a social psychology lab and a health psychology lab. These experiences solidified my passion for both psychology and the law. After graduating, I entered the Legal Psychology PhD Program at Florida International University. As a graduate researcher, I examined a wide variety of issues at the intersection of psychology and the law including the use of interpreters during interrogations, how to improve investigative interviewing, cognitive biases in forensic science, the effects of alcohol in interrogation contexts, false memories, and cognitive biases in intelligence analysis.