Kim Nguyen is from Hanoi, Vietnam. She is passionate about understanding childhood trauma and mental health in multiple cultural contexts. As Kim shared, she could have not found her academic interests if it were not for her Field Work Terms at the Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy Center at NYU and at the social welfare agency, New Alternatives for Children. Her senior thesis “Behind the Mask of Tough Love: Investigating Toxic Shaming in Vietnamese Parenting” strongly highlights these passions as well as her ambitions to become a therapist and a researcher in the field of Developmental Psychology.