Courtney Louis, M.A. (she/her) is a graduate student in the Clinical Science doctoral program at Michigan State University. She graduated with a B.A. in Psychology from Hunter College, City of New York in 2016. She is broadly interested in the association between anxiety and cognitive processes in female populations, and the use of neurobiological measures to assist with our understanding of this. She is particularly interested in ovarian hormones and their role in anxiety, cognition, and neural function. Importantly, she is also committed to expanding our understanding of these processes in Black female populations. To this end, Courtney was awarded the NIMH Research Supplement to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research in 2019 and the NIMH NRSA fellowship (F31) in 2021 to examine the role of ovarian hormones in anxiety and cognitive outcomes. Ultimately, Courtney hopes that her work will enhance our understanding of mechanisms that maintain the debilitating effects of anxiety to better inform treatment approaches. Courtney is also passionate about advocacy and working toward ways that her research, clinical work, and outreach may help promote well-being in underserved communities, such as women, people of color, and gender and sexually diverse people.
