Principal Investigator
Cheryl R. Kaiser, Ph.D.
Cheryl Kaiser’s research explores psychological aspects of prejudice, stereotypes, identity, and diversity, and the intersection of these topics with law, politics, and policy. Current projects explore how well-intentioned organizational diversity initiatives create unintended consequences, including the perpetuation of discrimination, minority stress, reactance among majority groups, and the miscarriage of civil rights laws. She also explores how prototypes of women obscure perceptions of sexual harassment, to the detriment of victims of harassment, organizations, and civil rights laws. Cheryl’s research been supported by the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Science Foundation, and the Russell Sage Foundation. Cheryl is a recipient of the SAGE Young Scholars Award, the James McKeen Cattell Sabbatical Award, and SPSSI’s Gordon Allport Intergroup Relations Prize.
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MJ Schneider
MJ is a 3rd year Ph.D. student and received their BA in Psychology, with honors from the University of San Francisco. MJ is interested in how people change through major life transitions (i.e. incarceration, grief, gender transitions, etc) and what is central to self-concept. They approach this question theoretically, and in applied research with under-represented groups, particularly trans and queer communities. Their past research has examined mental simulation, memory, and social cognition broadly using natural language processing and neuroimaging techniques.
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Grey Raber
Grey is a 1st year Ph.D. student who received their BA in Psychology from Princeton University. Grey is interested in how self-conceptions of marginalization and adversity affect perceptions of personal agency and goal oriented behavior. Their previous work has examined youth’s experiences with queerness, foster care, gender affirming medical care, and mental health.
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Sarrah Khan
Sarrah Khan is an undergraduate student pursuing psychology and CHID (Comparative History of Ideas) at the University of Washington. She is interested in how race, culture/acculturation, and religion interact with adolescent/young adult identity and mental health. Her honors thesis considers how religiosity impacts political polarization. She hopes to expand on these interests in the future by pursuing clinical psychology and developing culturally adaptive, accessible, community-based interventions and psychoeducation practices for marginalized, refugee, and immigrant communities in the U.S.
Graduate & Postdoctoral Alumni
Z Ferguson (Ph.D. 2025) | Postdoctoral Research Scientist at University of Kaiserslautern-Landau
Rebecca Schachtman (Ph.D. 2025) |
Ella Lombard (Ph.D. 2024) | Postdoctoral Research Scientist at foundry10
Bryn Bandt-Law (Ph.D. 2023) | Postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University
Jessica Glazier (Ph.D. 2022) | Assistant Professor at Clark University
Adam Smiley (Ph.D. 2022) | Assistant Professor at Belmont University
Jonathan Gallegos (Postdoc 2019-2021) | Research Scientist at Altria
Eric M. Gomez (Ph.D. 2020) | Google
Jin X. Goh (Postdoc 2017-2019) | Assistant professor at University of Illinois Chicago
Arianne E. Eason (Ph.D. 2018) | Associate professor at UC Berkeley
Daniel Kort (M.S. 2016) | IXL Learning
Sara Hagá (Postdoc 2013-2015) | Postdoctoral researcher at University of Lisbon
Teri Kirby (Ph.D. 2015) | Associate Professor at Purdue University
Kerry Spalding (Ph.D. 2015) | Google
Ben Drury (Ph.D. 2013) | Google
Lori Wu Malahy (Ph.D. 2012) | Instagram
Clara Wilkins (Ph.D. 2011) | Associate Professor at University of Washington
