Team – ME Grad Student Mental Health

Meet our team!

Bettina Arkhurst

Teams: Community events, conflict resolution, funding/student mental health services, policy, website

Destress Methods: I love a good binge-watching session and a long walk with friends. I think Zumba is great and lots of fun, too!

Anusha Krishnan

akrishnan89@gatech.edu

Teams: Community events, funding/student mental health services

Destress Methods: I watch cooking shows. Swimming

Jennifer Molnar

jmolnar@gatech.edu | LinkedIn

Teams: Conflict resolution

Destress Methods: I love hiking and taking walks, petting my cat, and playing TTRPGs with my friends.

Macrae Montgomery

smm34@gatech.edu

Teams: Community events, conflict resolution

Destress Methods: Go for a run in Piedmont Park

Derek Nichols

dnichols32@gatech.edu | LinkedIn | Website

Teams: Conflict resolution, website

Destress Methods: Kickboxing and spending quality time with my cat

Anastasia Schauer

ana.stasia@gatech.edu

Teams: Community Events

Destress Methods: Hang out with my cats and crochet!

Boni Yraguen

byraguen3@gatech.edu

Teams: Conflict resolution, policy

Destress Methods: Following Covid, I have been able to almost entirely stop coming to campus – and oh man has that helped a lot. My experience with my first advisor was traumatic (literally) and even though I have been working with a new advisor for over a year I still have days where I get triggered and physically re-live my previous experience. Whenever that happens I have learned the best thing to do is “quit the day” and do what feels good for the rest of the day. Sometimes its going to bed at 5pm, sometimes its reading my book, and sometimes its satisfying a craving for mayo. I think the important thing in this is that I make a choice to stop letting GT control my day. I felt controlled and manipulated and powerless for so long that this is the only thing I have found to do that helps.

Meet our team!

	Bettina Arkhurst bettina@gatech.edu \| LinkedIn \| Website Teams: Community events, conflict resolution, funding/student mental health services, policy, website Destress Methods: I love a good binge-watching session and a long walk with friends. I think Zumba is great and lots of fun, too!
	Anusha Krishnan akrishnan89@gatech.edu Teams: Community events, funding/student mental health services Destress Methods: I watch cooking shows. Swimming
	Jennifer Molnar jmolnar@gatech.edu \| LinkedIn Teams: Conflict resolution Destress Methods: I love hiking and taking walks, petting my cat, and playing TTRPGs with my friends.
	Macrae Montgomery smm34@gatech.edu Teams: Community events, conflict resolution Destress Methods: Go for a run in Piedmont Park
	Derek Nichols dnichols32@gatech.edu \| LinkedIn \| Website Teams: Conflict resolution, website Destress Methods: Kickboxing and spending quality time with my cat
	Anastasia Schauer ana.stasia@gatech.edu Teams: Community Events Destress Methods: Hang out with my cats and crochet!
	Boni Yraguen byraguen3@gatech.edu Teams: Conflict resolution, policy Destress Methods: Following Covid, I have been able to almost entirely stop coming to campus – and oh man has that helped a lot. My experience with my first advisor was traumatic (literally) and even though I have been working with a new advisor for over a year I still have days where I get triggered and physically re-live my previous experience. Whenever that happens I have learned the best thing to do is “quit the day” and do what feels good for the rest of the day. Sometimes its going to bed at 5pm, sometimes its reading my book, and sometimes its satisfying a craving for mayo. I think the important thing in this is that I make a choice to stop letting GT control my day. I felt controlled and manipulated and powerless for so long that this is the only thing I have found to do that helps.