Brooke is a graduate student in the Clinical Psychology doctoral program working with Drs. Tracy Riggins and Lea Dougherty. She received her BA in Psychology from Kenyon College in 2018 with a minor in English. While at Kenyon, Brooke co-founded two programs aimed at increasing access to mental health care for students on campus and juvenile offenders in the surrounding community. Following graduation, Brooke served as a Research Coordinator at Boston Children's working with young children and adults on various research projects looking at the neural, biological, and social underpinnings of autism spectrum disorder across the lifespan. In 2021, Brooke joined Dr. Moriah Thomason's lab at New York University, where she studied the impact of perinatal stress, early adversity, and COVID-19 on fetal and infant neurobiological development.

Brooke joined Dr. Tracy Riggins' lab in 2021. Her graduate work has focused on risk and resilience, parenting, and neurodevelopment. She is ultimately interested in understanding the processes through which predictability and environmental stressors influence caregiver-parent relationships, the development of neural structures, and lifetime risk for disorders.

In addition to her graduate research, Brooke co-leads UMD's branch of the national mentorship program NexGen Psych Scholars (NPSP), which is supported by the Psychology Department's Broadening Participation Initiative.