KRYSTLE R. CARKEEK
-HomeCherry Hill, NJ 08003
krc453@comcast.net | 856 669-1229
(Last revised April 2015)
-SchoolPiscataway, NJ 08854
EDUCATION
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY, New Brunswick, NJ
Majors: Psychology and Cell Biology/Neuroscience
Current GPA: 3.92
CHERRY HILL HIGH SCHOOL EAST, Cherry Hill, NJ
Magna Cum Laude | 5 on AP exams in Biology, Chemistry, Psychology and Calculus BC
Sep 2013-present, Sophomore
Sep 2009-Jun 2013
AWARDS AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT
Dean’s List- Fall 2013, Spring 2014, Fall 2014
Rutgers 2015 Academic Excellence Award-given by the university to the top 10% of sophomores at Rutgers
Member of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars
Member of the National Society of High School Scholars
Commended National Merit Scholar
President’s Award for Educational Excellence
AP Scholar with Distinction Award
Honorable Mention at the 2011 Camden County Art for Teens
Cum Laude Society- inducted into the Cum Laude Society on May 17, 2012 as part of the top 10% of the senior class
Brad Wilby Memorial Sportsmanship Award-Awarded for demonstrating exceptional sportsmanship, character, leadership,
and teamwork while participating in the athletic program for the Cherry Hill Public Schools.
Biology 2 League- Nov 2011-Mar 2012-Selected as one of five students to represent Cherry Hill East in a competition series for
Biology 2.
EXPERIENCE
RESEARCH ASSISTANT
Jun 2014-present
Affective and Biological Underpinnings of Substance Use and Anxiety Lab at Rutgers, New Brunswick, NJ
§ Project: Distress Tolerance: Multiple methods and relation to psychopathological symptoms
§ Principle Investigator: Teresa Leyro Ph.D.
§ Project examining the relation between self-report and behavioral measures of distress tolerance and how
emotional clarity relates to the discordance between those measures. This research also examines the
relationship between distress tolerance indices and various psychopathological symptoms.
§ Helped in IRB proposals for study approval and responsible for the maintenance of a lab website. Responsible for
recruitment and retention of participants, data management, data measurement, phone screening, subject
interviews, handling sensitive information and responding to participants who may be in crisis.
Conference Presentations and Published Abstracts
§ Manikandan, S., Leyro, T.M., Nillni, Y.I., Rohan, K., Zvolensky, M.J., & Carkeek, K. (2015, April). The moderating effect of
menstrual cycle phase on the relations among emotion dysregulation, menstrual symptoms, and perceived control.
Poster to be presented at the 2015 conference of the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, Miami, FL.
UNDERGRADUATE TEACHER’S ASSISTANT
Jan 2015- present
Abnormal Psychology taught by Teresa Leyro Ph.D. at Rutgers, New Brunswick, NJ
§ Helped coordinate and come up with test questions, organize class material, and answer student questions.
PUBLISHED ILLUSTRATOR
Jan 2011-present
Friday and the Magic Wand, Saturday and the Nothing, and Sunday and the Brothers written by Vel Grande
§ Cover art and internal sketches. Books are available as an eBook on Amazon and iTunes.
COMMISSIONED ARTIST
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Jan 2011-present
As a freelance artist I maintain an art website and an online community. I open commissions for digital and
traditional art.
§ Notable Commission work
§ June 2014- present: Series of 6 digital illustrations of a story to be pitched to BBC
§ Oct 2014: Cover illustration for an upcoming comic “Lips Squared” featured in a booth at NYCC
§ April 2014: Illustration for a professional designer, Tina Roth Eisenberg’s talk at the 99U design
conference in New York.
§ Sep 2013: Illustration of a character to be pitched to DC Comics
§ Examples available upon request.
TUTOR
Bridge tutoring at Rosa International Middle School, Cherry Hill, NJ
Oct 2010-Jun 2013
§ Tutored all middle school subjects (e.g. Math, History, English, Spanish, Science) and helped run the program by
getting the group together and coming up with a plan of organization.
Cum Laude Society, Cherry Hill East High School
Apr 2012- Jun 2013
§ Part of the top 10% of seniors who tutored underclassmen.
Kumon Math and Reading Center, Cherry Hill, NJ
Nov 2010-Mar 2011
§ Tutored children to enhance their math skills. Organized existing learning materials into cohesive workbooks to
optimize the children’s education.
SKILLS AND TRAINING
COMPUTER SCIENCE
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HTML, CSS, JAVA Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Photoshop and Illustrator
§ Web Development: Summer 2014-Made a professional website for the ABUSA lab at Rutgers
www.abusalab.rutgers.edu
OTHER SKILLS
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Art: I work advanced in any medium-published illustrator and commissioned artist
Actively played instruments: Piano for 12 years, Clarinet for 3 years
School and rec sports teams: Soccer for 6 years, Basketball for 7 years, Track and Field for 3 years
TRAINING
Mindware: Led by Gary Bernston Ph.D.
§ Oct 2014: 3 day training with Mindware technology to measure HRV, heart rate, respiration, and cardiac impedance.
SCID: Led by Teresa Leyro Ph.D.
§ Spring 2015: training once a week on administering a structured clinical interview for the DSM-IV, non-patient (SCIDIV-NP11) to assess comorbid substance use, mood, anxiety, and pathology.