Richard Lopez

Rich is a happy and recent resident of Morningside Heights. He currently works as a research assistant at the Social Cognitive Neuroscience Lab at Columbia University, where he studies emotion regulation and craving in substance-using populations. He graduated from Princeton University in 2009 with a BA in psychology. In addition to studying the brain and human behavior, Rich enjoys moonlighting for The Curator and writing songs that illumine and transcend our human condition. He can be found trying to "keep the feast" at richlopez.wordpress.com.