Maggie graduated with high distinction and honors in Psychology (BA) from the University of Michigan in 2012. Under the supervision of Dr. Norbert Schwarz and Spike W. S. Lee, she completed an honors thesis that used the theoretical framework of grounded cognition to look at the effects of a brief meditation exercise on memory of a narrative article. Maggie came to York University in the fall of 2012 as a Fulbright Scholar and spent the year working under the supervision of Dr. Jennifer Steele. Fulbright Canada is a joint, bi-national, treaty-based organization created to encourage mutual understanding between Canada and the United States through academic and cultural exchange. Maggie is interested in the development of implicit and explicit racial biases among children and stereotype threat. During her time in the IPSC lab, Maggie conducted two studies aimed at understanding the impact of social categorization and emotion on implicit biases. Undergraduate Thesis: The Presence of Memory: How Guided Attention Influences Recall and Recognition