Savannah Girod is a fourth-year doctoral student in the Human Development and Family Studies Ph.D. program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She received her M.S. in Human Development and Family Studies from UNCG in 2020 and her B.S. in Psychology from Stevenson University in 2018. Savannah’s research focuses on how early childhood experiences influence sensitive parenting and parent-child relationships. She is particularly interested in the intergenerational transmission of childhood adversity and the underlying processes that influence children’s socioemotional development and health outcomes during infancy and early childhood.