My name is Luca McDonnell, I am a fourth-year psychology major and brain and behavioral health minor who is interested in the intersection between clinical science and adolescent well-being. As such, I am interested in pursuing higher education, and hope to one day work as a scientist-practitioner who works with transdiagnostic treatment modalities for adolescent mental health. With the help of the URSP scholarship, I will be examining whether speech topic controversiality predicts perceived distress in socially anxious participants. In my free time, I like to swim, cook, bake, run, and take naps!