Shirley is a recent graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles, and is interested in risk factors for mood disorders, specifically depression and anxiety; How stress affects adolescent development. She aspires to become a psychiatrist or enter the research field in psychiatry. Outside of the lab, she is part of a K-pop cover dance team at UCLA called KOREOS! She loves dancing, filming, video editing, food exploring, and cafe hopping with friends. She also loves traveling to new places and is working as a ER scribe at a local trauma center, as well as a crisis counselor at National Crisis Textline.