Bio:
Sydney Kong is a research coordinator for Dr. Paakhi Srivastava. Sydney graduated in 2 years from UCLA with a B.A. in Psychology Summa Cum Laude and Departmental Honors. During her time at UCLA, Sydney spent a year with Janet Tomiyama, Ph.D., in the DiSH Lab conducting independent research for her senior honors thesis. Her research focused on characterizing weight stigma resilience and understanding how weight stigma manifests in everyday life. She also presented her study as a poster at the UCLA Psychology Undergraduate Research Conference, Society for Personality and Social Psychology convention, and Association for Psychological Science convention. Sydney plans to pursue a Ph.D. in Psychology.