Ashley Cooper is a recent graduate of Harvard College, who jointly concentrated in Neuroscience and Social Anthropology, with a Secondary in History of Science, a citation in Mind, Brain, and Behavior, and a language citation in French. Currently, she is pursuing a MPhil in Health, Medicine, and Society at the University of Cambridge as the Lionel de Jersey Harvard Scholar. She is deeply interested in the intersection between culture and psychiatric care. A Mellon Mays Fellow, Ashley aims to increase equity in mental health care dispersal, and especially to foster enhanced accessibility to mental healthcare for the Black community. Ashley recognizes that representation is of paramount importance when endeavoring to remedy racial disparities in mental healthcare delivery and subsequently yearns to improve the mental health domain to better serve the idiosyncratic needs of minority communities.
