“I really wanted to have constant communication and constant impact with our local community,” explains Edith Brignoni-Pérez, PhD candidate at Georgetown University Medical Center who also served as president and secretary of SfN’s DC Metro Area Chapter.
As president, Brignoni-Pérez intentionally branched out further into her community. She achieved success by hosting impactful events, listening to her team, and collaborating with other institutions and organizations.
Ultimately, she believes, “A leader will never be successful if they don’t put the knowledge they have about their community in the context of compassion.”
Watch this video to hear more insight from Brignoni-Pérez to help you conduct outreach in your own community or lead your local SfN chapter.
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Edith Brignoni-Pérez
Edith Brignoni-Pérez is a PhD candidate at Georgetown University Medical Center. She earned a BA in psychology at the University of Puerto Rico (UPR), Río Piedras, where she conducted undergraduate research in the Fear Learning Lab led by Gregory J. Quick at the Medical Sciences Campus. She also was a summer undergraduate research fellow in Elizabeth A. Phelps’ lab at New York University. After, Brignoni-Pérez was a post-baccalaureate fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, exploring the glutamatergic role in the development of social behaviors in transgenic mouse models relevant to negative symptoms of schizophrenia. Outside of the lab, she served as president and secretary of SfN’s DC Metro Area Chapter and participates in her community.