Faculty spotlight: Fisher supports students and mental health providers
The beginning of Sycarah Fisher’s research journey stemmed from her family’s experiences.
“When I was in graduate school, I was really interested in the idea of resilience, thinking about the different things that myself and my siblings went through and seeing that here I was going into a doctoral program, and here are my brothers who were struggling with drug abuse and in and out of jail and all these things that made me wonder, ‘what makes some people rise above their circumstances and the things that happen, and what makes other people succumb to it?’” she said.
An associate professor in the University of Georgia’s school psychology program housed in the Mary Frances Early College of Education, Fisher originally went to college with the intention of becoming a teacher. However, courses in psychological assessment and neuropsychology paved the way for her to attend graduate school.