Karolina Cabrera Orellana got her associate degree in liberal arts Psychology at Quincy College, after that she transferred to UMass Boston where she is currently a third year student in pursuit of a Bachelor of Science in Psychology. Working at ECCL MIT as a Lab Fellow since 2020.

Isaiah Dela Cruz is the Lab Manager at MIT’s Early Childhood Cognition Lab (ECCL) as of August 2025. He earned his Ed.M. in Human Development and Education, with a concentration in Early Childhood development from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and his BSc in Psychology, minor in Data Science from De La Salle University (Philippines). At present, he is working on measuring the transformative experience of becoming a parent; understanding the representations that expectant and current parents might possess about the process and what might be some underlying factors (e.g., beliefs, attitudes, cultural factors, etc.) that encompasses the cognitive transitions to parenting.