Shadini is a PhD student in the Clinical Psychology stream of the graduate program. She completed her BSc in neuroscience and health studies at the University of Toronto Scarborough and spent part of her post bacc year working as a research analyst at CAMH. Shadini’s MA research examined the effects of self-serving and prosocial motivation on episodic memory in younger and older adults. Shadini has also been involved in a longitudinal study of prosociality. Shadini was awarded an NSERC Vanier Award in 2023.