Rocio Olvera

Rocio Olvera has a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Sacramento State University. Her interests and work experience include working as a behavioral therapist for autistic children, caregiver for the elderly and disabled, Spanish-English Medical Interpreter, and research assistant for UC Davis Medical Center in its “Motivating Our Mothers (MOM)” depression-screening project.

In her recent years, she authors a Neuroscience column in Alianza Metropolitan News.

As an undergraduate student, she was part of a psychology research lab as well as the Ronald E. McNair Scholars Program where she conducted her own research investigating dietary influences on mental wellbeing. Now commencing her third year as a doctoral student, Rocio was awarded the very prestigious Graduate Research fellowship by the National Science Foundation to support her work in studying neural mechanisms responsible for visually-guided behavior in the mouse.