Kelley is fifth-year graduate student and NSF Graduate Research Fellow under the mentorship of Dr. Koraly Pérez-Edgar. She received her B.S. in Psychology with a minor in Neuroscience from the University of Maryland in 2015, where she worked primarily on a project examining the role of emotion priming on visual search in the lab of Dr. Nathan Fox. After graduation, she spent the following two years working as a lab manager with Dr. Dima Amso at Brown University. She is interested top-down attention as a mechanism of risk or resilience in children at temperamental risk for anxiety, using methods including mobile eye tracking, fNIRS, and EEG.