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Anna Bardone-Cone (she/her) went from a math and French double major at Williams College to teaching middle school and high school to graduate school in clinical psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to internship at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic in Pittsburgh, PA. Although her path to psychology was not direct, the field of psychology and being a professor have been a great professional home for her in terms of letting her wear the many hats she likes: research, mentoring, teaching, seeing clients (although not for a while now). Her first faculty position was at the University of Missouri- Columbia with a move to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2009 for unique opportunities and to be closer to family. Anna’s research is on psychosocial factors related to eating disorders and has focused on perfectionism, self-concept constructs, social media, peers, and family. She also has interests in defining recovery from eating disorders in a comprehensive way (in particular, assessing for cognitive recovery, not just physical and behavioral recovery) and in the value of having a consensus way of assessing recovery for the purposes of treatment outcome research, and interests in examining disordered eating and body image in racial and ethnic minority groups, considering theories and relationships that have been tested in predominantly White samples as well as theories and relationships that may be unique to racial/ethnic minorities. Anna teaches undergraduate courses in psychopathology, eating disorders and body image, and gender, and a graduate class on multiculturalism in clinical psychology. She is currently a Thorp Faculty Engaged Scholar and excited for the opportunity to develop partnerships with communities to engage in research that will benefit them. She has a sustained involvement in diversity-related initiatives with past roles as faculty advisor for the clinical program’s Diversity Training Committee (including inaugurating the Diversifying Clinical Psychology Weekend), co-director of the department’s diversity initiatives, a Working on Women scholar, and co-chair of the departmental Climate and Inclusion committee. |