Joan Kim is a PhD candidate in Dr. John Coley’s CORE Lab. After graduating from Tufts University, Kim spent time at a cardiovascular imaging lab before transitioning back to psychology. She is currently interested in how people think about the natural world/systems and climate change. Her hope is that she can develop interventions in fighting climate change by encouraging people to think about themselves as part of the natural world and rethinking the psychological distance between the self and climate change disasters.