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"Alexis Smith Washington is an Assistant Professor in the Management Department at Oklahoma State University. Her research interests include gender, status, and influence, as well as diversity and bias at work. Dr. Washington is a member of the Academy of Management, the Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychologists, and the Southern Management Association. She has publications in Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, and Journal of Managerial Psychology."
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Hi, I'm Dr Lex Smith Washington and I am a researcher in the organizational behavior Department. I'm an associate professor of management and I study DEI and related topics.
Currently, I'm working on some really cool and fun stuff about intersectionality. I'm really interested in how race and gender intersect to affect things like individual visibility, to affect things like career progress and also how individuals are stereotyped, as well as the advantages and disadvantages of having multiple intersecting minority identities.
So for example, I've done research on black women and currently, thanks to some of my students, working on research about Asian American women and men. We're really excited about seeing where that research goes. I'm also, thanks to another group of students, studying a little bit more about entrepreneurship and some of the things that go into micro funders decision making.
In particular, given my DEI interest, I'm really interested in how individual entrepreneurs of color are perceived. The perceptions that they're the intersections of their race their appearance and their class, can have on funding decisions made at some micro-funding level.
Then finally of late, I've been doing a lot more research around other dimensions of diversity That are. newer to me. Class is one that has again, been brought to me by one of our students, who's really interested in studying how social class, so socioeconomic status, can affect not only the way that we present ourselves at work, but then also how others perceive us, and the kinds of interactions that we have and the development of relationships across some of those class boundaries. I'd love to have you join us here.
