Whitney was a PREP scholar in the Hultman Lab, where she studied the cellular and molecular factors contributing to network organization in major depressive disorder. She earned her B.S. in Biology from Spelman College and completed the Post-Baccalaureate Research Education Program at the University of Iowa. Whitney is now a PhD student in the Graduate Program in Neuroscience at UIC College of Medicine. Her current research in the CoNeCT Lab focuses on how the stress response to perceived discrimination impacts brain network connectivity and cognition in late-life depression.