Psychology Majors & Degrees

Valerie Swisher ’22 graduated from Westmont with a B.S. in Psychology. She completed a year long Fulbright Fellowship in Hungary, where she conducted research on mental health literacy and help-seeking behavior among Hungarian primary care providers and patients. She also received a prestigious 5-year National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship to support her in the Clinical Psychology PhD program at Penn State University.

Kaitlin Kinney ’17 graduated from Westmont with a B.S. degree in Psychology on the behavioral neuroscience track. She earned a Master of Science degree from the University of Southern California in neuroimaging and informatics and worked at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience at UCLA. She recently completed the Neuroscience PhD program at Wake Forest University in North Carolina.

Lydia Grenko ’18 earned a B.S. in Psychology with a concentration in Behavioral Neuroscience. After graduation, she worked in social services at the Samarkand while also serving as the Psychology Department Laboratory Coordinator. Lydia is currently pursuing a doctorate in Clinical Psychology on the geropsychology track at the University of Colorado. Her professional interests include working with family caregivers of those with dementia, and conducting research on sleep interventions in skilled nursing facilities.