Sunan is a master’s student in the Developmental Psychology program at Teachers College, Columbia University. She received her dual B.A. in Psychology and Education Studies from Brandeis University. At Brandeis, she worked in Dr. Margie Lachman’s Lifespan Lab, contributing to research on cognitive aging and Alzheimer’s disease risk. She later worked in Dr. Hannah Snyder’s Cognition, Psychopathology, and Environment Lab, where she completed an honors thesis on metacognitive beliefs, intolerance of uncertainty, and internalizing symptoms. She also gained clinical research experience at McLean Hospital, studying mood, cognition, and emotion regulation in adulthood and aging. Sunan’s research interests focus on children’s executive functioning, emotion regulation, and mental health development.