2015 Alumni

Shamala Matthews is a junior at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and is double majoring in Business Management with a focus on Talent Management and Psychology. She has most recently worked as a Project Manager at American Express leading digital development teams in developing and maintaining interactive web systems. She currently volunteers as a program coordinator for Against All Odds Empowerment implementing programs that serve teenage mothers and at risks girls with low socioeconomic statuses. She looks forward to pursuing graduate and post graduate work in the field of I/O psychology with a keen focus on maximizing workforce productivity, engagement, satisfaction, and organizational design.

Research areas of interest

Work life, Organization development

Ruth Topete is a rising senior majoring in Psychology and with a minor in business management at San Diego State University.  Her research interests are diversity in the workplace, leadership and person job fit. She is currently working in a lab conducting research on organizational and leadership effectiveness. Ruth is a member of Psi Chi National Honor Society and the psychology club on her campus. Ruth aspires to go to onto graduate school and pursue a career working for the government.

Research Topic I am Interested In

Just recently I learned about inclusiveness and diversity in organizations and I have been looking more into it and I feel it blends my interests together.

I am primarily interested in diversity in organizations and person job fit.

I am also intrigued by individual differences specifically their leadership styles and their relationships with others such as their manager’s, coworkers and the organization.

Kiara is a senior at Rice University majoring in Psychology and Sociology with a minor in Poverty, Justice & Human Capabilities. She has been in engaged in several research projects and is currently a research assistant in an Industrial Organizational Psychology lab at Rice. Her research interests include diversity and discrimination in the workplace and in schools, as well as globalization. Her goals include pursuing a PhD in Industrial Organizational or Social Psychology in order to become a researcher and professor. Through her research and teaching, she hopes to serve underrepresented populations and inspire future scholars to do the same.

 

Research Topic:

I am interested in organizational diversity and systemic discrimination, specifically in the workplace and in schools. I am most interested in ethnic discrimination. I would like to pursue a topic that I can develop into an honors thesis next year.

 

 

Sasha Pierre-Louis is originally from Boston, MA but has called Richmond, VA her home for the past ten years.  She is currently a student at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. This year she is a first semester student within the Psychology Honors Program where she will be working on an individual research project within the field of Industrial Organizational Psychology for the next year.  Miss. Pierre- Louis is working towards a Bachelors of Arts in Psychology, with a concentration in Work and Organizational Psychology and a minor in Leadership Studies.  She is a junior and is expected to graduate May 2016; after she plans to attend graduate school for Industrial Organization Psychology to work towards becoming a consultant for organizations and businesses, specializing in leadership development, diversity, and organizational culture.

As a student Miss. Pierre- Louis has not only made a commitment to her academics but also works to serve and be an active member in the community. This year alone she has served as a committee member for George Mason’s 2015 Commemoration Week of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, serves as a Resident Advisor for over thirty five upperclassmen students, and an Office of Diversity, Inclusion, and Multicultural Education diversity workshop facilitator for university classes, which she has been doing since she was a freshman.  In February she was also inducted as a new member of Psi Chi, which is the National Honors Society for Psychology.  Some of her other past campus involvements include being a summer orientation leader and a Leadership Consultant in the Leadership Education and Development Office.