Dayla Ramsey is a PhD student at the Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution. Her background with trauma as a disabled veteran is the catalyst for examining compassionate interventions that facilitate healing, empowerment, and community building. As a Graduate Success Fellow, she helps empower fellow graduate students by providing peer coaching, resource accessibility, and cultivating empowering mindsets for students.
The intersection of trauma narrative, cognitive neuroscience, and neurolinguistics is the focus for her PhD. She examine how compassion, as an intervention, changes the trajectory of how trauma experiences/narratives create conflict loops. Her goal is to contribute to the research on the impact that trauma has on mental health, healing, and community repair.