Mikayla Kendall

Mikayla Kendall is an undergraduate neuroscience researcher and MARC-sunset Scholar at Georgia State University. Kendall is pursuing a career as a physician-scientist to expand health equity for marginalized communities. As a researcher, she is motivated to understand health disparities and find solutions, which has culminated in neuroscience and health policy research experiences. Committed to building inclusive communities, she is an active leader in the Association for Scientists of Color and co-developer of Youth Voice Matters, an organization promoting youth-adult power sharing. She investigates early life adversity's impacts on excitatory and inhibitory synaptic inputs onto corticotropin-releasing neurons in the central nucleus of the amygdala, a stress-sensitive region of the brain.