Where am I from? I was born in Avignon, France to Veronica Miller and Herve Raffegeau; descendants of the truest of Americans and the most patriotic of the French (this is why my name is spelled funny and is oh-so-confusing). I left France with my mom at the age 5 to live with my grandmother in Sammamish, WA, quickly learning English and stubbornly forgetting most of her French (FYI I pick it up well when I go back, since I knew you’d ask). In 1997, we moved to Peoria, IL, where I attended Sterling Middle School and Richwoods High School. After graduation, we moved back to Washington state where I went to Bellevue Community College in Bellevue, WA until I transferred to Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA, majoring in Kinesiology. I then earned a Master’s degree in Health and Kinesiology at Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN. I went on to earn my PhD in Biobehavioral Sciences in the Kinesiology Department at the University of Florida (Go Gators). I did a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City before I took my first faculty position at Ohio University in the division of Exercise Physiology. I recently took a position as an Assistant Professor at George Mason University, beginning August 2022.

My research focuses on how cognitive (e.g. executive functions, language production) and emotional factors (i.e. anxiety, fear of falling) interact with motor control processes in older adults.