Sarina Alavi
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About
Persian American TikToker, psychology content creator, and researcher also known online as Psych & Education PhD Student and known for her TikTok videos focusing on psychology and neuropsychology education, graduate school advice, academia content, fashion, and her life as a doctoral student which has helped her amass over 110,000 TikTok followers with over 8 million TikTok likes.
Before fame
She earned bachelor's degrees in psychology and education, society, and human development from the University of California, Riverside in 2020.
Trivia
She enjoys playing piano, traveling, creative activities, and spending time in nature. She received Teachers College's Shirley Chisholm Trailblazer Award in 2025. She was quoted by Mashable in 2025. She began posting content on TikTok in April 2022. She earned a master's degree in psychology in education with a clinical psychology concentration from Teachers College, Columbia University in 2023 before continuing at Columbia as a doctoral student in school psychology.
Family life
She was born in Northern Nevada to parents who were forced migrants from Iran.
Associated with
She received the Shirley Chisholm Trailblazer Award which was named in honor of Shirley Chisholm.
