Meryl graduated from Yale-NUS College with a B.A. (Honors with Highest Distinction) in Psychology. She is passionate about socio-emotional learning, prosocial development, and educational inequities in layered social contexts.

Her winning entry is paradigmatic of these interests. Entitled “A Values-Alignment Empathy Training Intervention to Decrease Relational Aggression Among Singaporean Adolescents”, the paper is an abridged version of her honors thesis, pursued under the mentorship of Assistant Professor Hae Yeon Lee. As a junior researcher, Meryl aspires to continue pursuing work that translates basic social-cognitive theory into culturally-tailored interventions, with the ultimate goal of bridging inequities at the school starting gate.