Abla Alaoui-Soce is a social impact fellow with the Teaching, Learning, and Tech program, Education Policy at New America. She is a fellow through Princeton’s GradFutures program and is currently a doctoral candidate in Princeton University's Psychology Department, where she works with the Princeton Social Neuroscience Lab.
Abla received her B.A. in Psychology from Harvard University. Prior to Princeton, she worked as a lab manager in Jeremy Wolfe’s Visual Attention Lab.
Her research explores the interplay between stories and cognition, with a particular focus on the influence of narrative structure on thought and memory. In her time in graduate school, she has served as an assistant instructor for the introductory psychology, research methods, and developmental psychology courses. At New America, Abla aims to apply insights from narrative and psychological research to help advance empathetic, equity-focused education policymaking.
In her home department at Princeton, Abla is best known as Athena the dog's human.