Christa Rose (She/Her/Hers or C/C’s)
Lab Manager, Lab of Comparative Cognition
- BU Alum: CAS/GRS ’22
- Gender Identity: gender non-conforming woman
- Sexual Orientation: queer
- First generation college student
- Race, Ethnicity, and/or Nationality: Latinx
- Hometown: New Haven, CT
Hey y’all! I’m a recent BU alum & current Lab Manager of BU’s Laboratory of Comparative Cognition.
I’m interested in researching innovative, accessible, & decolonial solutions that improve mental health, with a particular interest in the therapeutic potential of psychedelics. Feel free to reach out if you’d like to talk about neuro research!
I’m super passionate about intersectional social justice advocacy & creating identity-affirming counterspaces, & I spent a lot of time doing these things at BU while I was a student. From 2019-2022 I was the President of the Queer Activist Collective, a student organization dedicated to supporting BU’s LGBTQ+ community. During this time, I helped launch numerous initiatives including the LGBTQIA+ BU Student Task Force (which led to the creation of BU’s LGBTQIA+ Student Resource Center), the Out List, Lavender Graduation, BU Pride, the Gender-Affirming Product Program, Gender-Neutral Housing for first-year students, & more!
Outside of research & advocacy work, I enjoy discovering new cafés, going to concerts, reading books, watching true crime documentaries, & spending time with my nibling :)
Contact Christa for academic support, research support, career support, student life, coming out, mentoring, and general networking.