Maya Brown-Hughston, BM, BS

Maya received her B.M. in Music Education and B.S in Child Development from Appalachian State University in 2018. Upon graduating, Maya moved to Burlington, NC, where she taught orchestra at the middle school level for two years. In 2021, she was accepted into the University of California, Irvine’s post-baccalaureate program in psychological science, where she worked as a research assistant in Dr. Elizabeth Martin’s Behaviors, Emotions, and Affective Neuroscience (BEAN) lab. Following the completion of UCI’s post-bacc program, Maya remained at UCI for an additional year, where she continued to work as a research assistant in Dr. Martin’s lab and began her position as a research assistant in Dr. Angela Lukowski’s Infant, Children and Families (INCHES) lab. In 2023, Maya joined the Green Lab as a research study recruiter and remains in this position to date. 

Maya’s research interests are in social and emotional processing in individuals with psychosis-spectrum disorders, with a specific focus on speech and language analysis. Beginning in August of 2025, Maya will begin her graduate studies at Indiana University, Indianapolis, in the Clinical Psychology Ph.D. program under the direction of Dr. Kyle Minor in the Cognition, Language, and Affect in Serious Psychopathology (CLASP) lab.