In June 2018, I graduated from Princeton University with a Ph.D. in Psychology. In January 2019, I began work as the Provost's Postdoctoral Fellow in Psychology at Florida State University. Formerly, I worked as a National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Postdoctoral Fellow at the Educational Testing Service. In that role, I used data from "The Nation's Report Card" to better understand the importance of non-cognitive factors and socio-emotional skills for student achievement in reading, mathematics, and writing.
At Princeton, working with Andrew Conway and Stacey Sinclair, my research focused on inter- and intra- individual differences in stereotype threat effects on learning and achievement for women and minorities. I have also done work investigating implicit theories about ability (also called Mindset) and their impact on real world cognitive performance.
In summer 2016, I worked as an intern at the Educational Testing Service. In this role, I worked on a collaborative project exploring Mindset, decision-making, and performance during an innovative assessment.
As 2012’s “Distinguished Graduate,” I earned an M.A. in Experimental Psychology from Towson University. With Kerri Goodwin I investigated individual differences in working memory and its relation to false memory.
In 2010, I earned B.A.s in Psychology and Art History from UNC Greensboro. I completed an honors thesis with Peter Delaney and Michael Kane, investigating the role of working memory capacity in spaced learning and cued recall.
My background and training has been with experts in memory, intelligence, and the psychology of stigma. I hope to combine these perspectives in order to better understand and mitigate stereotype threat. With several lines of research I aim to design more individualized interventions for students of stigmatized social and group identities--based on differences in cognitive and non-cognitive abilities and/or personality factors. The goal of my work is to help all students improve their academic performance and achievement.