Christiana joined the Infant Caregiver Project as a Clinical Science graduate student in the summer of 2017. Prior to joining the lab, she received her BS in Psychology and Biology at Gettysburg College and worked at the National Institute of Nursing Research, where she studied epigenetic factors associated with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Traumatic Brain Injury. She is interested in biological correlates (DNA methylation, gene expression) and developmental trajectories of children affected by relational trauma and neglect, particularly children who have experienced institutional care and disrupted parent-child relationships.