Ariana Bazzi is a Research Assistant for the Center for Deployment Psychology (CDP). She received her Bachelor of Science in Psychology and a minor in Sociology from Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU).

During her undergraduate career, she did an independent study in the La Esperanza Research Program where she contributed to research examining the relationships between immigration policy and mental health outcomes in Latinx adolescents. Postgrad, Ariana was a research volunteer in the REPEAT Lab at VCU where she worked closely on research projects regarding reward processes, emotion regulation, and treatment methods for anorexia nervosa.