Tyra Bergstrom

Research Assistant
Northwestern University

She/They

Tyra Bergstrom (she/they) earned their B.S. in psychology from Eastern Connecticut State University in 2022, where they worked on a single-session intervention for intrusive thoughts in college students. During their two-year tenure at Brown University as an NIH PREP scholar and research assistant in Dr. Laura Stroud’s lab, Tyra contributed to several longitudinal studies examining psychosocial predictors of intergenerational health. They are broadly interested in emotion dysregulation following traumatic experiences and discrimination in marginalized groups, with a specific focus on people with disabilities. Tyra intends to pursue a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology to develop disability-affirming interventions. Outside of research, they enjoy playing Dungeons & Dragons and spending time with their two cats named Artemis and Kevin.