She received honors when graduating with a Sc.B. in Psychology from Brown University and later earned a Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Harvard. She has been published in Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Psychological Science, and Nature Neuroscience among others. Her research is in the areas of prejudice, stereotyping, and intergroup relations. The three projects she will be working on while at the Research Institute are: 1) motivational processes underlying racial categorization; 2) the influence of exposure to color-blind and multicultural approaches to diversity on prejudice, stereotyping, and self-efficacy; and 3) cognitive consequences of interracial contact.