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About Me |
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I was born in the city of Blantyre in Malawi, a small country in southern Africa. I came to the U.S when I was one year old and lived in various states in the Eastern and Midwestern United States before my family finally settled in Richardson, Texas when I was ten years old. I graduated from Plano East Senior High in 2004.
I am a psychology major and a senior at the University of Texas at Austin. I will graduate in December 2007, and I plan to enter a graduate program in clinical psychology in the fall of 2008.
In my spare time I like to play piano, listen to music, hang out with friends, and watch cheesy reality TV shows. These days I spend a lot of my time working on my thesis and studying for the GRE. I’m also interested in the ancient world (I took four years of Latin in high school and two years of Ancient Greek at UT) and philosophy, my minor concentration. I have two sisters, one brother, a family dog, and a late fish.
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Research Interests |
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Biography |
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Minority mental and physical health disparities, psychotherapy outcomes in treatment of ethnic minorities |
Role of ethnicity in relation to body image, particularly preferred body fatness |
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Ethnic differences in binge eating behavior patterns |
Contributors to disparities in likelihood of obesity in underserved populations |