I am a Research Excellence Postdoctoral Fellow at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto.

My research is guided by the overarching question: How does confirming or refuting group-based status expectations shape individuals’ behavior within organizations?

Organizations are inherently hierarchical, and navigating them requires people to make sense of status-related information about themselves and others. Drawing on theories from social psychology, sociology, and organizational behavior, I examine how intersecting social identities and status hierarchies shape the psychological and interpersonal processes underlying organizational experiences and outcomes.

I use experimental, archival, and computational methods to study these processes across interpersonal interactions and labor-market contexts. For example, I examine how Black individuals’ socioeconomic status and its alignment with the status associated with their race influence White individuals’ self-presentation during interactions. In other work, I examine whether individuals from racial and ethnic groups with similar social status can signal identity safety to one another through perceptions of shared experiences with discrimination.

Education

I earned my Ph.D. in Organization & Management from Emory University, where I was a Robert W. Woodruff Research Fellow and a Centennial Scholar. Prior to my doctoral studies, I earned an M.S. in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from Purdue University (IUPUI), where I was a Kabat Research Fellow.