Michelle is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Massachusetts – Lowell. She is an organizational psychologist, specializing in the field of workplace diversity. For over a decade, she has investigated the challenges women and persons of color face within organizational contexts. Her approach involves investigating these issues using multiple methods, from experimental work conducted in the lab to community-based action research. Theoretically, she draws primarily on the role of stereotyping processes in creating negative performance expectations for women and persons of color which, in turn, fuel a host of adverse consequences in the work domain.