Joyce Li

Joyce Li is a junior psychology major and creative writing minor, as well as a member of the Jimenez-Porter Writers' House. Joyce was also a member of the Honors Humanities living-learning program during her first two years at UMD. Additionally, Joyce finds great fulfillment in volunteering at Help Center, UMD's peer counseling and crisis intervention hotline. She is a research assistant in several labs on campus, including the Diversity and Intergroup Relations Lab. Joyce hopes to attend graduate school for counseling psychology, and she hopes to write a novel someday. She has been reading and writing since kindergarten, and she believes that stories are a beautiful way to practice empathy, express creativity, and explore possibilities.