Warsan Ali

Warsan is Biopsychology major, minoring in Poverty, Inequality and Social Justice at UCSB. Currently, she is a pre-med student hoping to specialize in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. She is a certified Mental Health First Aider, and her interests include behaviorism, developmental psychology, and mental health disorders in youth and young adults. She is also interested in the effects of ethnic and cultural identity in development, and how it shapes and impacts people’s lives. In the TALE lab, Warsan is working on a manuscript with Dr. Albada and Dr. Sideeka Ali on cultural differences in the quality of autobiographical memory, particularly for cultures that are not clearly individualistic or collectivist. 

*Warsan was in the TALE lab from Winter 2020 to Spring 2020. She is co-author on a publication, and is now pursuing research in other areas.