Dr. Alexandra Horowitz, PI
Lab Members
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Madelyn Baker, Barnard '19 Madelyn is a psychology and music major at Barnard. She's always loved dogs, especially her 9-year-old canine, Cali, and often wonders about what the dogs she passes on the streets of NYC are thinking about. |
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Kazandra "Casey" Estorque, Teachers College Master's program Casey is a master's student in the Counseling Psychology and Mental Health Program and holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of Texas. She grew up with surrounded by a variety of animals which nurtured a lifelong passion for animal welfare and animal behavior. |
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Melissa Flores, Barnard College Alum, Columbia University Melissa graduated from Barnard College in 2016 where she majored in Psychology and minored in Biology & Chemistry. Having been a part of the Dog Cognition Lab at Barnard as a senior, she is thrilled to be back! Melissa is currently a Lab Specialist in the Biology Department at Barnard, where she teaches introductory biology lab while TA-ing the co-requisite lecture and an upper-level molecular biology lab course. Her greatest love is her 8-year-old border collie-chihuahua-terrier, Panda, who is the goofiest little cat-dog you will ever meet. In the future, she hopes to continue nurturing a love for science in young women as a professor of animal behavior. |
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Courtney Garrity, Columbia '15
After studying Earth Science at Columbia University, Courtney now works full-time behaviorally rehabilitating abused dogs at the ASPCA and, in her spare time, volunteering as a wildlife rehabilitator at the Wild Bird Fund. She currently spends too much time with other peoples' dogs to have one of her own, but does have a beautiful hamster son named Hermes. |
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Leah Kim, Barnard '19 Leah is a senior at Barnard majoring in Biology with a concentration in physiology/organismal biology. She has been on the pre-veterinary track and is currently working at an animal hospital in Chelsea. Although she doesn't have a dog (sadly) she has 2 rescue parakeets and a small beta fish. |
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Gabriella Privitelli, Barnard '20 Gabriella is a junior psychology major at Barnard and joined the lab in the Fall 2018 semester. When she is back home in Los Angeles she works as a technician at a Veterinary hospital. Thereby, the Dog Cognition lab uniquely synthesizes two of Gabby's passions and she's excited for the research to come. |
