SCHNAUDE DORIZAN, DOCTORAL CANDIDATE

Graduate Fellow Intern

Northwestern University

Schnaude Dorizan is a Haitian-born native of Brooklyn, NY. She attended the University of Maryland Baltimore County where she double majored in biology and psychology. After earning her degrees, she went on to complete a 2-year post-baccalaureate program at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx where she investigated the role of the cerebellar-VTA pathway in social behavior. Schnaude is now a 6th-year PhD student in the Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program at Northwestern University and is a member of the Hartmann lab. She is working to understand how the spinal trigeminal nucleus is involved in mediating whisker behavior in rats. Schnaude serves as the Graduate Fellow Intern for the Inclusive STEM Teaching Project at Northwestern. In this role she facilitates virtual learning community discussions as well as the affinity discussion boards online. Schnaude has also co-created content for the project’s Facilitator Training. She is quite passionate about mentorship and outreach. Her hope for the future is to combine her love of science and outreach so that every child is granted the opportunity to learn and explore the world around them. When she is not doing science or fighting for social justice reform in education, Schnaude loves to dance, do kung fu, and watch anime.