Sydney joined the Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-Up Lab as a Research Assistant and ABC Parenting Institute parent coach in January 2025. She graduated summa cum laude in December 2024 from the University of Delaware with an honors B.A. in Psychology and minors in Women and Gender Studies and Human Development and Family Science. Prior to graduating, she had worked in the lab as an undergraduate research assistant since Fall 2023. She is broadly interested in the effects of early life adversity on development and the application of research to policy making