Get to Know Your Student Committee: Diversity Liaison, Sana Vora

We asked the members of the 2024-2025 Student Committee to answer some questions about themselves to help you get to know who they are and what they do.

What is your school, program, and year?
Montclair State University, Clinical Psychology PhD Program, 4th year

Why psychology and the law?
I’m interested in psychology and the law because I feel passionately that the legal system should reflect a rehabilitative approach rather than a punitive one

What is your favorite thing about your current graduate program?
My favorite thing about my graduate program is the immense amount of support offered by my peers and faculty!

If you were not in graduate school, what would you do?
Maybe I would have gone to beauty school because I think self-care is important and find doing hair/nails to be relaxing. Or – astrophysicist.

What advice do you have for those applying to graduate school?
My advice is to show both your knowledge/interest in the field AND your personality in your personal statement and during interviews!

If you had one year to train, what Olympic sport do you think you could qualify and medal in?
Maybe volleyball since that is the only organized sport I’ve participated in. If I’m fantasizing, I’d want to medal in something else, like figure skating or gymnastics

Books or movies?
Movies!

If you could only watch 3 movies for the rest of your life, what would they be?
The first Scream movie, Gone Girl, the original Twelve Angry Men

What is your go-to road trip snack?
For salty, I’d go cheez-itz, for sweet maybe M&Ms

Does pineapple belong on pizza?
If you want it to!
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Explain your hot take about pineapple on pizza.
Sometimes it’s a vibe! Depends on how I’m feeling but to each their own for sure

What is your favorite place you have ever traveled?
I went to Paris when I was super young and would love to go back so I could appreciate it more

Would you only eat hot food or cold food for the rest of your life? Why?
This is tough – I would say hot foods because I can’t go without soups/stews

What is your favorite weird fact?
Snow formation is an exothermic reaction!

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