Zoya Barnes is from Cape Canaveral, FL, and is in the class of 2028. She is currently majoring in Psychology, where her interests lie in clinical, social, and sexual psychology. She intends to attend a graduate program to pursue research and possibly professorship in the field. At UNC, Zoya Barnes is a member of the Penn Lab, where she studies schizophrenia treatments through digital interventions. Zoya’s love for research and education in the social sciences was spurred by her first literature review “The Feminist and Religious Perspectives of Anorexia Nervosa” under the mentorship of Dr. Andrew Moore at UF, which was published by the Journal of Student Research. Zoya Barnes is a member of Alpha Epsilon Delta, a pre-health honor society at UNC. She serves on the Mental Health Committee within AED and is currently working on a list of mental health resources for the members’ weekly newsletter.
