Nicole Lashley-Simms is a doctoral student in clinical psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Nicole received her B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis where she majored in Cognitive Neuroscience and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and worked as a peer counselor for a sexual assault and rape crisis line. She later served as Clinical Research Coordinator at Washington University School of Medicine in the Neonatal Development Research Lab where she worked on several NIH funded R01 studies including the Healthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) study, a multi-site longitudinal study of early brain and child development. At John Jay, Nicole works under the supervision of Dr. Chitra Raghavan in the Sex Trafficking and Domestic Violence lab. Her current research uses a mixed-methods approach to examine sexual coercion and intimate partner violence in the LGBTQ+ community and seeks to validate psychometric measures in sexual minority populations.Â
