Joyce Nishimwe

Caltech Amgen Scholar ’25 | Ronald E. McNair Scholar | Albright Fellow ’26 - ’27 | Neuroscience major on the Pre-Med Track @ Wellesley College

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

About

“You have to learn to follow your dreams — but don’t stop there. Strive to achieve them.” - Ronald E. McNair

Experience

  • Albright Fellow at Madeleine Korbel Albright Institute for Global Affairs
    May 2026 - Present · 3 mos

  • Undergraduate Research Assistant at McGovern Institute for Brain Research
    Aug 2025 - Present · 1 yr

    Student Researcher in the SaxeLab Project: Identifying the social and neural mechanisms of asymmetric coordination across anxiety subtypes - Yellow Badge Trained - Working in the MIT Athinoula A. Martinos Imaging Center

  • Ronald E. McNair Scholar at U.S. Department of Education
    Aug 2025 - Present · 1 yr

  • Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) Fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Aug 2025 - Present · 1 yr

  • Wellesley College (Wellesley, Massachusetts, United States)
    • Health Professions Peer Career Mentor
      Jun 2025 - Present · 1 yr 2 mos

      Partner with Health Professions advising staff in the Career Education Department and provide Wellesley Students with guidance and feedback on preparing for and applying to patient-facing medical careers, including, but not limited to, medical and dental schools. This position also includes mentoring current PreMed Scholars at Wellesley College.

    • Undergraduate Research Assistant
      Jan 2024 - Sep 2025 · 1 yr 9 mos

      Research assistant in Professor Jennie Pyers' Language and Cognitive Development Lab, and worked on the Oral Deaf Interaction Project. My role involved analyzing video interactions between deaf dyads to advance research on the oral deaf community. I utilized software tools such as ELAN and Qualtrics in my work. In this role I completed a presentation at the Wellesley College 2025 Ruhlman conference.

    • Research Apprentice
      Jan 2024 - May 2024 · 5 mos

      Shadowed Dr. Jennie Pyer's research team's weekly lab meetings and would help as an experimenter when an experiment took place. Her lab focuses on language and cognitive development.