Expertise
As an intergroup relations researcher, my body of work examines evidence-based interventions to promote the success of singly and multiply marginalized persons across a variety of organizational environments. My lab primarily utilizes experimental methods, but also utilizes mixed-methods to identify strategies and behaviors that engender identity-safety and allyship for marginalized persons.
My most recent projects have adopted an intersectional perspective and we have examined how interventions aimed at singularly marginalized persons (e.g., white women) are ineffective at signaling identity-safety among persons with intersecting, marginalized identities (e.g., Black women). I am also exploring how individuals can convey allyship to Black individuals in STEM and health contexts, and how allyship and identity-safety has implications for health outcomes and addressing health inequities.
Degrees
PhD, The Ohio State University, Social Psychology, 2012
