Ashley Reed is a third year graduate students in the clinical psychology program at GWU. She grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, but moved south to attend the University of Georgia for undergrad (Go Dawgs!). She graduated in 2019 with a double major in Psychology and Sociology and a double minor in Anthropology and Disaster Management. During her time at UGA, she worked in a disaster lab, where she investigated public perceptions of pet owners who left their pets behind during evacuation from slow- and rapid-onset natural disasters. She has also been involved in extensive research related to the 2015 Nepal earthquakes, looking at the impact of social and religious support on mental health outcomes after the disaster and analyzing the long-term effects of child-friendly spaces on mental health and development among affected children. Ashley hopes to explore the impacts of disaster events on mental health, with a specific focus on cultural, societal, and personal risk or protective factors that may influence resilience processes. In the summer of 2019 she received an APAGS/Psi Chi Junior Scientist Fellowship to help her with that work. Outside of school, Ashley enjoys nature photography, hiking, bowling, and playing with her newly adopted kittens, Archie and Zion.
