June 16, 2025

2025 Summer Research Assistants

The Center for Law, Brain, and Behavior regularly engages students in the Center’s work. Below are profiles of our Summer 2025 Research Assistants. Past students at CLBB have come to us from a wide variety of programs and diverse backgrounds, including undergraduates, law students, medical students, and post-docs.

Kellie Weisse is a rising 3L in the Dual JD program at the University of Ottawa and American University. She holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Toronto, where she majored in Neuroscience and Molecular Genetics with a minor in Bioethics. Upon completing her legal training in both Canada and the U.S., she aims to pursue international comparative research at the intersections of neuroscience, public health, disability, ethics, and the law.

Andrew Charroux is postgraduate student at the University of Cambridge pursuing an M.Phil in History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine as a Keasbey Scholar. He holds a B.A in Social Studies from Harvard College where he was awarded the Science, Technology & Society Essay Prize and the Obama-Chesky Voyager Scholarship for Public Service. Before beginning his MPhil at Cambridge, Andrew supported attorneys at a medical-legal partnership assisting patients with unmet legal needs in his hometown of Los Angeles, California. His academic and professional interests span behavioral health law and policy, medical regulation, and criminal justice.

Christina Nguyen is a recent graduate from the University of California, Berkeley, where she earned a B.A. in Psychology and Public Health, with a minor in Public Policy. She was born and raised in Orange County, CA, and is passionate about minority mental health, juvenile justice reform, and community violence interventions. This past year, Christina completed an Honors Thesis in Public Health examining urban gun violence as a public health crisis and an Honors Thesis in Psychology exploring the development and revision of racial biases. In the near future, she plans to pursue her doctorate in Psychology to build mental health resiliency in refugee, BIPOC, and AANHPI communities. 

Alex M. Ray is an incoming Ph.D. student in counseling psychology at the University at Albany, State University of New York, with goals of becoming a professor, licensed clinical psychologist, and forensic evaluator. He is originally from Norton, Massachusetts and recently graduated summa cum laude from Bridgewater State University. Broadly, his research and clinical interests concern forensic mental health assessment, legal decision-making, the translation of science into law/public policy, and the legal and psychological implications of structural and institutional oppressors (e.g., classism, racism) on marginalized communities, particularly within justice-involved populations. Alex is immensely passionate about making the U.S. legal system more equitable for everyone.