Fatimah Mohammed-Ali Hometown: Baghdad, Iraq Program: MA Book I would recommend: Detox Your Thoughts by Andrea Bonior Favorite Quote: “If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” -Wayne Dyer What would people be surprised to know about you?  People might be surprised to know

Edith Ochoa Torres Hometown: Commerce Township, MI Program: MA with ABA Book I would recommend: No-Drama Discipline: The Whole-Brain Way to Calm Chaos and Nurture Your Child’s Developing Mind by Daniel Siegel, MD and Tina Payne Bryson, PhD Favorite Quote: “One sees clearly only with the heart. What is essential

Taylor Callockio Hometown: New Boston, MI Program: PsyD Book I would recommend: The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz Favorite Quote: “Sometimes you get what you want. Other times, you get a lesson in patience, timing, alignment, empathy, compassion, faith, perseverance, resilience, humility, trust, meaning, awareness, resistance, purpose, clarity, grief,

Julie Cipolla Hometown: South Lyon, MI Program: MA with ABA Book I would recommend: I am not much of a bookworm. Currently I read children’s books to my girls. My favorite to read is Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson! Favorite Quote: “Sometimes people come into your life for a

Tyler Coffey Hometown: Garden City, MI Program: MA Book I would recommend: To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini Favorite Quote: “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” -George Eliot What would people be surprised to know about you?  People would be surprised

Mackenzie Mercer Hometown: Ionia, MI Program: PsyD Book I would recommend: Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens Favorite Quote: “Success is not final, failure is not fatal, it is the courage to continue that counts.” -Winston Churchill What would people be surprised to know about you?  I grew up

Rachel Booker Hometown: Bangor, MI Program: MA with ABA Book I would recommend: Dopamine Nation by Anna Lembke, MD Favorite Quote: “Are you living or are you existing?” – Unknown What would people be surprised to know about you?  That I completed an ABA program 8 years ago but took a

Francesca Hall Hometown: Belding, MI Program: MA Book I would recommend: The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Dr. Bessel van der Kolk Favorite Quote: “When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” -Viktor Frankl

Zahraa Chokr Hometown: Dearborn Heights, MI Program: MA with ABA Book I would recommend: You Will Get Through This Night by Daniel Howell Favorite Quote: “You define your own life, don’t let other people write your script.” -Oprah Winfrey  What would people be surprised to know about you?  People would

Marwa Attia Hometown: Marlboro, NJ Program: PsyD Book I would recommend: Why We Remember by Charan Ranganath Favorite Quote: “The only way to do great work is to love what you do” -Steve Jobs What would people be surprised to know about you?  I was born in Saudi Arabia and