Isabella Kahhalé

Isabella Kahhalé is a a fourth-year Clinical-Developmental PhD student at the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) studying early life adversity, neuroscience, antisociality, & prosociality. She is passionate about working with minoritized communities and addressing various downstream outcomes faced by at-risk populations throughout the lifespan. After graduating with a B.S. in Cognitive & Brain Sciences from Tufts University, she joined the Stanford Social Neuroscience Lab to study the neural foundations of empathy. ​She now works with Assistant Professor Jamie Hanson at Pitt to understand how adverse childhood experiences influence the development of the brain, aggression, and empathy. You can read more about her work at her website, www.isabellakahhale.com.